Summer Course in Modern Icelandic

22/01/2026

Umsóknarfrestur er til 15. feb. / Application deadline is till 15 Feb, öll velkomin / all welcome:

Learn Icelandic at a summer school in Reykjavík.

06/01/2025

Summer School in Modern Icelandic Language and Culture will be held on July 1–31, 2025. Application deadline is February 15. For further information and registration, please visit this website:

Branislav Bédi July 1–31, 2025 Application Deadline is February 15 of each year Each year the Árni Magnússon Institute for Icelandic Studies, in cooperation with the Faculty of Humanities at the University of Iceland, organizes an International Summer School in Modern Icelandic Language & Cultu...

15/10/2024

The Icelandic Ministry of Culture and Business Affairs awards annually a number of scholarships for BA-studies in Icelandic as a second language at the University of Iceland. The scholarship program is administrated by the Árni Magnússon Institute for Icelandic Studies.

Application deadline is December 1st each year.

For further information, please visit this https://arnastofnun.is/en/about-scholarship

11/02/2021

Hópur fólks á Íslandi, í Frakklandi, Finnlandi, Sviss, Austurríki og víðar tekur nú þátt í bókmennta-og heilsuátakinu Laxness 119 sem stendur yfir frá 8. febrúar sem var dánardagur Halldórs Laxness til 23. apríl sem var fæðingardagur skáldsins en í ár eru liðin 119 ár frá því að hann fæddist. Fólkið sem tekur þátt í átakinu er hvatt til að lesa eina eða fleiri skáldsögur eftir Halldór á tímabilinu. Einnig er fólk hvatt til að stunda þá hreyfingu sem hentar því best. Sumir hyggjast ganga, skokka, hlaupa eða hjóla 119 kílómetra á tímabilinu 8. febrúar til 23. apríl sem er lokadagur átaksins, meðan aðrir ætla til dæmis að sippa 119 sinnum.

http://gljufrasteinn.is/is/frettir/bokmennta_og_heilsuataki_laxness119_hofst_i_gaer

12/01/2021

(Íslenska) Umsóknarfrestur fyrir alþjóðlegan sumarskóla í íslensku máli og menningu er 15. febrúar.

(English) Application deadline for International summer school in Icelandic language and culture is February 15th.

Umsóknarfrestur fyrir alþjóðlegan sumarskóla í íslensku nútímamáli og menningu er til 15.

13/11/2020

https://arnastofnun.is/en/news/masters-thesis-award-efnil-masters-thesis-competition

EFNIL (the European Federation of National Institutions for Language) calls on students to participate in a competition to find the best master’s theses in Europe within the area of language use, l

12/11/2020

https://www.arnastofnun.is/en/about-scholarship

About the scholarship The Icelandic Ministry of Education, Science and Culture awards annually a number of scholarships for foreign students to study BA-programme in Icelandic as a second language at the University of Iceland in Reykjavík. The scholarship programme is administrated by the Árni Mag...

01/08/2020

Despite the pandemic (faraldurinn), this year’s course was a successful one! We held two parallel courses in July, one online for those who couldn’t travel, with 10 participants; and another one in-situ in Reykjavik with 18 participants. We hope we could repeat the same next year. And Rósalind Rektor - the university cat - kept us a company during our final get together in Reykjavík (you can spot her in the photo below).

23/04/2020

Gleðilegan sumardaginn fyrsta! Hope you all are well wherever you are. Today, we celebrate The First Day of Summer (Sumardagurinn fyrsti) here in Iceland. (We patiently await the sun to peek out to help us celebrate!) Here is a short article about this tradition written by a foreign journalist living in Iceland:

Today is the First Day of Summer in Iceland, an official holiday in the country and a tradition that can truly be considered unique to the nation. In the old Icelandic calendar, the First Day of Summer (Sumardagurinn fyrsti) likely marked the beginning of a new year, which Icelanders celebrated by g...

09/04/2020

Happy Easter everyone! Here is the newest song from Iceland 'Ferðumst innanhús' (let's travel inside the house):

FERÐUMST INNANHÚSS 1. Þú veist það eru viðsjárverðir tímar með landamæri lokuð víðast hvar En sútum ekki örlög, heldur húkkum okkur far Í ferðalag og freistu...

15/01/2020

Hæ! Do you or your friends want to learn Icelandic? Deadline for applications is 15th February!

Date: July 6th-31st, 2020 Application deadline: February 15th each year.