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Haraldur Bernharðsson - Associate Professor
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School of Humanities
Haraldur Bernharðsson
Íslenska
Associate Professor
Associate Professor of Medieval Studies
Location
Edda
Phone
525 - 4023
8917511
Email
haraldr [at] hi.is
Unit
Icelandic and Comparative Cultural Studies
Website
https://uni.hi.is/haraldr/
ORCID site
https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1353-547X
Research portal – Haraldur Bernharðsson
Courses 2024 - 2025
MIS204F - Icelandic Medieval Manuscripts
MIS801F - Old Icelandic 2
MIS803F - History of the Icelandic Language
MIS604F - Master’s thesis workshop
MIS105F - Old Icelandic 1
MIS501F - Old Norse metrics
MIS904F - Old Norse metrics: Essey
Education
2001
,
Ph.D.
,
Cornell University
,
Linguistics
1998
,
MA
,
Cornell University
,
Linguistics
1995
,
MA
,
University of Iceland
,
Icelandic Linguistics
1991
,
BA
,
University of Iceland
,
Icelandic
1988
,
,
Akureyri Junior College
,
Matriculation
Professional Experience
2012 -
,
Associate Professor of Medieval Studies,
The Department of Icelandic and Comparative Cultural Studies at the University of Iceland
2011 -
2012,
research fellow,
The Centre for Medieval Studies at the University of Iceland
2010 -
2011,
research fellow,
The Árni Magnússon Institute for Icelandic Studies on a grant from the Icelandic Research Council.
2008 -
2010,
Árni Magnússon researcher,
The Árni Magnússon Institute for Icelandic Studies.
2005 -
2008,
research fellow,
The Árni Magnússon Institute for Icelandic Studies on a grant from the Icelandic Research Council.
2001 -
2005,
post-doctoral,
Centre for Research in the Humanities University of Iceland
1999 -
2001,
Visiting Fellow,
Harvard University Department of Linguistics
Published works
2023
The vernacular scribe in medieval Iceland: On textual transmission and language change in the manuscripts of Njáls saga
Málið á Njáls sögu á síðari öldum
Skírnir : tímarit Hins íslenska bókmenntafélags
Að deila mál í bókum með axarhyrnum og spjótalögum: Hugtök og heiti í greinarmerkja-fræði
2022
The scribes of the Gráskinna manuscript of Njáls saga Observations on scribal contact and social identity
Arkiv for Nordisk Filologi
The scribes of the Gráskinna manuscript of Njáls saga Observations on scribal contact and social identity
Arkiv for Nordisk Filologi
2021
Scribes and scribal practice in GKS 1812 4to
2020
Hvenær komu Íslendingasögurnar fyrst út á nútímaíslensku?
[Review:] Magnus Rindal and Bjørg Dale Spørck, Kong Magnus Håkonsson Lagabøtes Landslov, 2 vols. (Norrøne tekster 9.) Oslo: Arkivverket, 2018
Speculum
Constructing an interactive Old Norse text with LARA
Constructing an interactive Old Norse text with LARA
Constructing an interactive Old Norse text with LARA
2019
ritstjóri texta: The Codex regius of the Poetic Edda
The Codex regius of the Poetic Edda. Konungsbók eddukvæða GKS 2365 4to
Palaeography
Landnám Íslands: Úr fyrirlestraröð Miðaldastofu Háskóla Íslands 2014–2015
Normalisation
ritstjóri texta: The Codex regius of the Poetic Edda
Det isländska språkets villkor 1818, 1918 och 2018
Nordisk tidskrift för vetenskap, konst och industri
Levels of text representation
Abbreviations
Palaeography
2018
More parallel, please! Best practice of parallel language use at Nordic Universities: 11 recommendations
TemaNord
Icelandic: Language: Linguistic reflection and language activism: Language interest
Hvenær og hvers vegna breyttist „ek em“ í „ég er“?
Spreading the standard:The nineteenth-century standardization of Icelandic and the first Icelandic novel
Journal of Historical Sociolinguistics
Scribal culture in Thirteenth-Century Iceland
Journal of English and Germanic Philology
Copying Njáls saga into one’s own dialect. Linguistic variation in six 14th-century manu-scripts
Umhverfi íslenskrar tungu 1818, 1918 og 2018
Skírnir
2017
More parallel, please! Sprogbrug i internationaliseringsprocesser. Nordisk Gruppe for Parallelsprogligheds afsluttende rapport med 11 anbefalinger til universiteterne om mønsterpraksis for brug af internationale og lokale sprog
Jón Thoroddsen og málstöðlun nítjándu aldar. Nokkur málfarsatriði í skáldsögunni Pilti og stúlku 1850 og 1867
Orð og tunga
Íslenskt mál og almenn málfræði
2016
Kirkja, klaustur og norskublandið ritmálsviðmið á Íslandi á miðöldum
"Church Sanctuary in the Contemporary Sagas"
Icelandic: A Historical Linguistic Companion
Íslensk klausturmenning á miðöldum
"Church Sanctuary in the Contemporary Sagas"
"Church Sanctuary in the Contemporary Sagas"
Íslenskt mál og almenn málfræði
2015
Íslenskt mál og almenn málfræði
2014
Endurreisn málsins. Grundvöllur og einkenni málstöðlunar á 19. öld
Skrifari Skarðsbókar postulasagna : nokkrar athuganir á skriftarþróun
Landerapport Island: Islandsk eller engelsk i islandsk universitetsvirksomhed?
Icelandic: A Historical Linguistic Companion
Íslenska og enska í íslensku háskólastarfi
Orð og tunga
Endurreisn málsins. Grundvöllur og einkenni málstöðlunar á 19. öld
Íslenska og enska í íslensku háskólastarfi
Orð og tunga
Landerapport Island: Islandsk eller engelsk i islandsk universitetsvirksomhed?
Landerapport Island: Islandsk eller engelsk i islandsk universitetsvirksomhed?
Endurreisn málsins. Grundvöllur og einkenni málstöðlunar á 19. öld
Íslenskt mál og almenn málfræði
Íslenska og enska í íslensku háskólastarfi
Orð og tunga
2013
Íslenskt mál á 19. öld. Málbreytingar – tilbrigði – málstöðlun
Íslenskt mál og almenn málfræði
Fornar stólræður
Is it possible to reverse a linguistic change? Language change and standardization in 19th-century Icelandic
Íslenskt mál á 19. öld. Málbreytingar – tilbrigði – málstöðlun
Stjórn
Íslenskt mál á 19. öld. Málbreytingar – tilbrigði – málstöðlun
Icelandic: A Historical Linguistic Companion
Is it possible to reverse a linguistic change? Language change and standardization in 19th-century Icelandic
Is it possible to reverse a linguistic change? Language change and standardization in 19th-century Icelandic
2012
Íslenska í tölvuheiminum
Um Reykir, Mýra og Fljóta. Nokkur sérkenni í beygingu íslenskra örnefna
Íslenskt mál og málstýring á nítjándu öld
Introduction to Old Icelandic
Íslenskt mál og almenn málfræði
Linguistic Variation and the Emergence of a National Standard in 19th Century Icelandic
Linguistic Variation and the Emergence of a National Standard in 19th Century Icelandic
Linguistic Variation and the Emergence of a National Standard in 19th Century Icelandic
2011
Inngangur að almennum málvísindum
Inngangur að sögulegum málvísindum
Introduction to Old Icelandic
Hver var Hreinn Benediktsson og hvert var hans framlag til fræðanna?
Íslenskt mál og almenn málfræði
Málbreytingar og heimildir um íslenskt mál til forna
Íslenskar mállýskur á fyrri öldum
2010
Inngangur að almennum málvísindum
"Á gamals aldrei" : um skort á mállegu umburðarlyndi á fjórtándu öld
Íslenskt mál og almenn málfræði
Inngangur að sögulegum málvísindum
[Review:] Alexanders saga. AM 519a 4° in The Arnamagnæan Collection, Copenhagen. Edited by Andrea de Leeuw van Weenen. Manuscripta Nordica. Early Nordic Manuscripts in Digital Facsimile. Volume 2. Copenhagen: Museum Tusculanum Press 2009
Collegium Medievale
2009
Igður klökuðu á hrísinum: Um tilbrigði í máli á Konungsbók eddukvæða
Inngangur að sögulegum málvísindum
Inngangur að almennum málvísindum
Af vöfflum og vöp(p)lum
„Bögumæli almúgans“ í Konungsbók eddukvæða: Um stafsetningarviðmið og blandaðan framburð
Hvað heitir bókstafurinn „œ“ á íslensku og hvernig er hljóðið borið fram?
[Review:] Sigurður Jónsson. 2007. Det vilda tänkandet och det kultiverade. Isländsk fackspråklig språkvård med tyngdpunkt på första hälften av 1900-talet. Acta Wasaensia 184. Språkvetenskap 34. Universitas Wasaensis, Vaasa
Orð og tunga
Íslenskt mál og almenn málfræði
2008
Íslenska til alls: Tillögur Íslenskrar málnefndar að íslenskri málstefnu
Íslenskt mál og almenn málfræði
Til Hofsósar: Um tilbrigði í eignarfalli nokkurra samsettra örnefna
Den islandske navnelov
Språk i Norden
Lokal markerethed i islandske stednavne
2007
Old Icelandic ragnarök and ragnarökkr
Íslenskt mál og almenn málfræði
Old Icelandic and Modern Icelandic: The Morphological Continuity
Greifswalder Universitätsreden
Yfir í Reykir og austur í Lauga: Sérkenni í beygingu nokkurra örnefna
Súlur
2006
„Cabin crew, ten minutes to landing“: Er íslenska ekki öruggt mál?
Íslenskt mál og almenn málfræði
Gás, gæs og Gásir, Gásar. Brot úr hljóðsögu og beygingarsögu
Orð og tunga
Göróttur er drykkurinn. Fornmálsorð í nútímabúningi
Gripla
Hugvísindaþing 2005: Erindi af ráðstefnu Hugvísindadeildar og Guðfræðideildar Háskóla Íslands 18. nóvember 2005
Gullepli og gullefli: Nokkrar norðlenskar ritmyndir frá fjórtándu öld
2005
Ég er, ég vill og ég fær. Þáttur úr beygingarsögu eintölu framsöguháttar nútíðar
Íslenskt mál og almenn málfræði
Samræmt nútímamál á fornum heimildum. Um málstefnu við útgáfu fornra texta
Skírnir
Járnsíða og kristinréttur Árna Þorlákssonar
Grímni mik hétu at Geirraðar: Þrettándu aldar „málvilla“ í Konungsbók eddukvæða
Íslenskt mál og almenn málfræði
2004
Afdrif kk-tákns Fyrstu málfræðiritgerðarinnar. Um táknbeitingu nokkurra þrettándu aldar skrifara
Gripla
Horfið þér á Skjá einan?
Íslenskt mál og almenn málfræði
Þykkja og þykja. Hljóðbeygingarvíxl einfölduð
Gripla
Málfar og stafsetning
„Úr minni mínu líður aldrei Ísland og íslenska þjóðin.“ Hundrað ára ártíð Willards Fiskes
[Review:] Grippe, Kamm und Eulenspiegel. Festschrift für Elmar Seebold zum 65. Geburtstag. Hrsg. von Wolfgang Schindler und Jürgen Untermann. Berlin/New York, Walter de Gruyter
Kratylos
Um Moldhaugnaháls út í Fjósa og Fjörður. Af áhrifsbreytingum í nokkrum fleirtöluörnefnum
Íslenskt mál og almenn málfræði
2002
Skrifandi bændur og íslensk málsaga: vangaveltur um málþróun og málheimildir
Gripla
2001
Verner’s Law in Gothic
1999
Málblöndun í sautjándu aldar uppskriftum íslenskra miðaldahandrita
1997
[Review:] Mattheus saga postula, Ólafur Halldórsson bjó til prentunar (Stofnun Árna Magnússonar á Íslandi; Rit 41)
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