Dalur JúlíusonFeb 253 minKeynote lecture: Old Maps, New BeginningsI'm delighted to have been invited to deliver a keynote address at the Háskóli Íslands Student Conference on the Medieval North, an...
Dalur JúlíusonFeb 222 minNew Publication! Compassing the Earth in an Icelandic EncyclopediaDiagrams may be knowledge in visual form, but they are also material things, whose designs sometimes made use of the physical properties...
Dalur JúlíusonOct 25, 20213 minThe Gold ShipIt was a dark and stormy night when the Dutch ship Het Wapen van Amsterdam, known in Iceland as Gullskipið ('the gold ship'), ran aground...
Dalur JúlíusonOct 9, 20213 minRunning Amok in Java, and some Malay words on sea charts in the Árni Magnússon CollectionWhen the manuscript collector Árni Magnússon (1663–1730) returned to Copenhagen with a consignment of precious manuscripts gathered from...
Dalur JúlíusonMar 25, 20212 minBringing Collections TogetherWhen Katarzyna Anna Kapitan and I set about curating a virtual exhibition that would span two museum collections, our challenge was to...
Dalur JúlíusonMar 25, 20213 minWord Porn: PetrichorThe word petrichor, describing the familiar and pleasant smell of the first rain on dry earth, was coined by two scientists writing in...
Dalur JúlíusonMar 5, 20213 minAn Exhibition about Looking to the Past to think about the FutureThis week, the virtual exhibition Writing Futures, which I curated in partnership with the National Museum of Iceland and the Museum of...
Dalur JúlíusonFeb 12, 20211 minVirtual Exhibition Launch: Old Norse Literature in Time and SpaceI'm delighted to announce an upcoming seminar that will mark the launch of a new virtual exhibition Reception and Reinvention: Old Norse...