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The find of the month October 2026 "A Left Wing Rebellion of art directors: how Brünnhilde the cat went viral" by Amrei Stanzel is now online!

Group photo with most of the conference participants. Not in the picture Per Andersen, Florian Kragl, Nicolas Meylan and Roland Scheel. Also missing are our co-PI Lukas Rösli and our external project partner Thomas Mohnike who were unable to attend due to illness. For three days, from 7 to 9 October 2026, we met one last time in the context of our research project “Resonating networks” for our closing conference in Basel. Together with our external project partners and intern

The binational Weave project “Resonating Networks” (“Nachhallende Netzwerke”), based at the University of Basel and Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin and financed by the Swiss National Science Foundation and the German Research Foundation in the period 2023–26, aims to examine the origins, discursive constitution, and implications of research paradigms in Old Norse studies. With a methodological foundation in discourse analysis and network-theoretical approaches in the tradition

The find of the month September 2026 "An eleven-year-old errand boy as an invisible actor" by Eline Elmiger is now online!

The find of the month August 2026 "Seventeenth-Century Definitions of the Edda" by Ela Sefcikova is now online!

Foto: Brünnhilde. Foto von Adolph E. Weidhaas, Connecticut, 1936. PR 06 CN 007-A, Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division Washington, D.C. 20540 USA.http://loc.gov/pictures/resource/ppmsca.51533/ Leitung: Eline Elmiger (Universität Basel) | Lucia Santercole (Universität Basel) | Amrei Stanzel (HU Berlin) Germanisches Altertum, Snorris Autorschaft, Ibsen als feministischer Vorreiter: Bestimmte Narrative und Konzepte haben ihren Weg in die skandinavistische Forschu

The find of the month July 2026 "Bibliophile practices and networks. Librarians in times of conflict and war" by Lena Rohrbach is now online!

On 10 June we had reasons to celebrate! Our project member Tim Lüthi successfully defended his dissertation “Altgermanische Dichtung. Andreas Heusler und das 'Lebens- und Formgefühl der alten Germanen'”. Here some pictures of the successful candidate together with the members of the PhD committee, Lena Rohrbach (main supervisor), Lukas Rösli (second supervisor), Sarina Tschachtli (censor), and Klaus Müller-Wille (chairman). Congratulations, dear Tim!

The find of the month June 2026 "The saga author and his book" by Lukas Rösli is now online!

The find of the month May 2026 "Musa scaldica: translating Icelandic poetry into Latin in the Early Modern" by Lucia Santercole is now online!

The find of the month April 2026 " The Ideologist and His Helpers: Cultivating the ‘Artistic Scholar’ Through the Archive " by Tim Lüthi is now online!

The find of the month March 2026 " The Feral Icelander: Victor Hugo’s Depiction of the North in Han d’Islande " by Ela Sefcikova is now online!

The find of the month February 2026 " The ultima thule of dress reform " is now online.

The find of the month December 2025 " “Eine Verfassung nach isländischem Muster”: Greenland, the Kaiser Franz Joseph Fjord and the second German Northpole expedition 1870–1871 " is now online.

The find of the month November 2025 " Show me your bookshelf, and I’ll tell you who you are " is now online.

The find of the month October 2025 " Torfæus’ successor? An interview with Jes Fabricius Møller, Historiographer to the Chapter of the...

The find of the month September 2025 " The little nation was the author. " is now online.

The find of the month August 2025 " The Sammelmappe You’ve Never Heard Of: Eiríkur Magnússon's Forgotten Invention " is now online!

The find of the month July 2025 " Konráð Maurer, Konrad Maurer – not just a coincidence " is now online!