Dalur Júlíuson
Two Mirrors, Two Seas
These days, if I'm not in somewhere in the outer solar system, I'm in seventeenth-century Indonesia. Later this summer I'm giving a...
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Dalur Júlíuson
- Jul 2
- 4 min
Loki (18.41 N, 302.58 W): A Found Poem
In the course of doing research for my new book about medieval imagery in space exploration and the astrophysical sciences - The Cosmic...
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Dalur Júlíuson
- Feb 25
- 3 min
Keynote lecture: Old Maps, New Beginnings
I'm delighted to have been invited to deliver a keynote address at the Háskóli Íslands Student Conference on the Medieval North, an...
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Dalur Júlíuson
- Feb 22
- 2 min
New Publication! Compassing the Earth in an Icelandic Encyclopedia
Diagrams may be knowledge in visual form, but they are also material things, whose designs sometimes made use of the physical properties...
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Dalur Júlíuson
- Oct 25, 2021
- 3 min
The Gold Ship
It was a dark and stormy night when the Dutch ship Het Wapen van Amsterdam, known in Iceland as Gullskipið ('the gold ship'), ran aground...
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Dalur Júlíuson
- Oct 9, 2021
- 3 min
Running Amok in Java, and some Malay words on sea charts in the Árni Magnússon Collection
When the manuscript collector Árni Magnússon (1663–1730) returned to Copenhagen with a consignment of precious manuscripts gathered from...
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Dalur Júlíuson
- Mar 25, 2021
- 2 min
Bringing Collections Together
When Katarzyna Anna Kapitan and I set about curating a virtual exhibition that would span two museum collections, our challenge was to...
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Dalur Júlíuson
- Mar 25, 2021
- 3 min
Word Porn: Petrichor
The word petrichor, describing the familiar and pleasant smell of the first rain on dry earth, was coined by two scientists writing in...
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Dalur Júlíuson
- Mar 5, 2021
- 3 min
An Exhibition about Looking to the Past to think about the Future
This week, the virtual exhibition Writing Futures, which I curated in partnership with the National Museum of Iceland and the Museum of...
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Dalur Júlíuson
- Feb 12, 2021
- 1 min
Virtual Exhibition Launch: Old Norse Literature in Time and Space
I'm delighted to announce an upcoming seminar that will mark the launch of a new virtual exhibition Reception and Reinvention: Old Norse...
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