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Dr Katrín Lísa L. Mikaelsdóttir
@vanlinduist.bsky.social
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Project Manager & Researcher at the Icelandic Centre for Digital Humanities and Arts (@mshl-cdha.bsky.social) and @antidote-network.bsky.social | PhD in Icelandic Linguistics | Víglundur 🐈
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More #DH at Miðaldastofan this Thursday!

Martin Roček @martin.rocek.dev
From String to Meaning: Applying Semantic AI to Find Textual Similarities Between Medieval Dreambooks in Bohemia

📅 Thursday, 6 November, 16:30
📍 Uni Iceland, Edda auditorium (E-103)

midaldastofa.hi.is
November 3, 2025 at 8:29 AM
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While Reykjavík is currently in the middle of a blizzard with orange weather warnings, it’s kind of fun to check the real-time GIS map showing which streets are being cleared.
October 28, 2025 at 10:37 AM
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Now open for applications ✨

International Summer School in Scandinavian Manuscript Studies, Reykjavík, June 15-25, 2026, organised by the Árni Magnússon Institute for Icelandic Studies, the University of Iceland, the University of Copenhagen & the National and University Library of Iceland.
October 22, 2025 at 1:09 PM
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Amazing presentation of the Corpus of Early Modern Icelandic (CEMI), 1540-1850 by Jóhannes B. Sigtryggsson at #sagaconference2025. So useful for historical studies of syntax and lexicography!

The project is coordinated by @mshl-cdha.bsky.social

mshl.is/en/projects/early-modern-icelandic-corpus/
August 5, 2025 at 12:27 PM
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Excited to be here at the Saga Conference!
August 4, 2025 at 7:38 AM
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Had a great time at the National Library of the Czech Republic today exploring medieval manuscripts, discussing digitisation and brainstorming future collaborations with members from @antidote-network.bsky.social. Děkuji moc!
July 31, 2025 at 7:14 PM
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Not every day you fly directly over an erupting volcano
July 20, 2025 at 5:31 AM
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CfP for #IMC Leeds 6–9 July 2026
“The Endless Scroll: Digital Approaches to Medieval Time”
Sponsored by @mshl-cdha.bsky.social

How can digital methods help us study or represent medieval ideas of time?

Submit by 1 Sept 2025
#IMC2026 #DigitalHumanities #MedievalSky
IMC Padlet: tinyurl.com/52dbx5ey
CfP for IMC Leeds, 6-9 July 2026 The Endless Scroll: Digital Approaches to Medieval Time Sponsor: Centre for Digital Humanities and Arts, Iceland Submission deadline: 1 September 2025 The Icelandic Centre for Digital Humanities and Arts invites contributions that explore how digital methods and tools can illuminate, represent, and reinterpret medieval temporalities. While we particularly welcome research with a focus on the Northern World, this call is open to comparative or globally situated projects across disciplines, periods, and geographies that approach time as both a subject of inquiry and a structuring principle. Possible topics may include (but are not limited to): Visualising medieval perceptions or structures of time Tools and technologies for measuring, representing, or distorting medieval time Digital editions of computus texts Digital reconstruction of objects or texts, lost or transformed over time Manuscript temporality (e.g. mise-en-page, palimpsests, gloss traditions, marginalia) using computational approaches Modelling temporal rhythms in liturgy, agriculture, politics, or narratives Analysis of long-term temporalities in environmental, climatic, or landscape data Artificial intelligence and the automation of temporal interpretation Temporal modelling in metadata, databases, markup languages, and DH infrastructures Interface design and user experience in projects that convey or manipulate medieval temporalities Re-mediating or reimagining medieval time in games or immersive digital environments Temporal poetics and the aesthetics of time in digital medievalism Please submit an abstract of around 200 words, a short bio including affiliation and contact information, and indicate your preferred mode of participation (in-person or virtual). Proposals and queries should be sent to Katrín Lísa L. Mikaelsdóttir (kll@hi.is) no later than 1 September 2025.
July 16, 2025 at 10:33 AM
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What a ride it’s been. Organising the @antidote-network.bsky.social event took blood, sweat, tears, laughter, and love, and it’s been such a memorable experience to see it all come together successfully!

Grateful for everyone who made it happen. I'm already looking forward to next year 💙
July 7, 2025 at 4:22 PM
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What a beautiful bunch of people I've had the pleasure to meet here in Dublin ✨️ @antidote-network.bsky.social
May 21, 2025 at 6:39 PM
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Time for a life update
#PhDone 🎓🎉
May 5, 2025 at 12:06 PM
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Var þetta ekki örugglega aprílgabb?
Hálfs dags eldgos og hvaðeina
April 2, 2025 at 9:41 AM
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We visited the #RÚV archives, Iceland's largest collection of audio & video footage, on behalf of @mshl-cdha.bsky.social to discuss how to make Icelandic media & cultural history accessible to the public.

The best part? You can explore the database and watch or listen to older material yourself!
February 21, 2025 at 7:49 AM
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Á föstudaginn mun ég kynna helstu niðurstöður doktorsritgerðar minnar. Endilega kíkið við í Málvísindakaffi í stofu 209 í Eddu, kl. 12!

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February 11, 2025 at 2:51 PM
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So, what do you do for a living?
You know, showing kids how to 3D scan crotcheted burgers
(which is a ton of fun and I highly recommend you try)

📷 @mshl-cdha.bsky.social
Woman holding a 3D scanner, scanning a crotcheted hamburger.
February 10, 2025 at 2:44 PM
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Just another February day 👀
Red weather alert for all of Iceland
February 5, 2025 at 2:39 PM
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In a lovely moment of cultural exchange, we celebrated Lunar New Year in Old Icelandic class with trilingual envelopes my students made, each holding a good wish for the Year of the Snake and a random Old Norse word + some 🐍 doodles on the grammar exercises
A photograph of a red envelope and white paper cards arranged on a table. The red card in the foreground features three languages: Icelandic, Mandarin and English. Another red card in the background displays an Old Norse word, Njörva-sund, with its English translation, "the Strait of Gibraltar." White sheets with handwritten Old Norse vocabulary and small doodles of snakes are visible in the background.
January 29, 2025 at 5:39 PM
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Sunrise over fog
January 29, 2025 at 10:52 AM
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Tjörnin this morning
Pond in fog, cold morning, sunrise in Reykjavík. Skyline and church tower in the background
January 29, 2025 at 10:07 AM
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Very cold and foggy winter morning in Reykjavík ❄️ Never get tired of this view from my office
Snowy view from the office, sunrise in Reykjavík, fog Sunrise in Reykjavik, winter landscape, skyline in fog. Pond in the foreground
January 29, 2025 at 10:07 AM
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Yesterday, I submitted my PhD thesis on language contact in late medieval Iceland for examination. Thank you to everyone who supported me along the way!

I'm very excited and very exhausted. What a ride!
#DH #oldnorse
PhD thesis cover page: 'Norwegian Influence on Icelandic Literary Language in the Fourteenth and Fifteenth Centuries: An Examination of Seventy-Five Scribal Hands'
December 7, 2024 at 10:41 AM
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Very excited to share the Call for Book Chapters for "Communication in Crisis," edited by me & Lea D. Pokorny for Trivent Medieval.

Details: shorturl.at/4QZga
CALL FOR BOOK CHAPTERS Communication in Crisis: Contextualising, Conveying and Coping with Crises in the Medieval Period Edited by Katrín Lísa L. Mikaelsdóttir (University of Iceland) and Lea D. Pokorny (University of Iceland) TOPICS Topics may explore cognitive, social, linguistic, palaeographic, and codicological dimensions, addressing broad societal issues such as mobility, linguistic inclusivity/exclusivity, and multilingualism. Other areas of interest include the language of crisis and resilience, examining discourses, frames, and metaphors. Miscommunication, misunderstandings, misspellings, scribal errors and corrections are also pertinent topics, as well as diplomacy, letter writing, emotional expressions and communication and miscommunication in medieval literature. SUBMISSIONS AND CONTACT Please send a short proposal including a title, a brief author bio, and an abstract of approx. 300 words to kll@hi.is by 1 October 2024.
August 27, 2024 at 9:16 AM
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Very excited to join the editorial board for the new book series "Old Norse Studies"! The series examines the religious, cultural, and literary dimensions of pre-Christian and medieval Scandinavia and Iceland. More here: trivent-publishing.eu/104-old-nors...
May 30, 2024 at 1:35 PM
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✨NECRON Workshop 2024 ✨

Call for Papers for the 4th in-person workshop of the Network of Early Career Researchers in Old Norse

Publishing, Public Engagement and Politics
24-25 October 2024
University of Oslo

Please submit abstracts to
necronnetwork@gmail.com by 29 Feb 2024

CfP: shorturl.at/eqDXY
January 22, 2024 at 7:44 AM
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The size and location of the current eruption at Sundhnúkagígur compared to Geldingadalir 2021, Meradalir 2022 and Litli-Hrútur 2023.
📷mbl
December 20, 2023 at 12:28 PM