Árni Magnússon
Árni Magnússon was an 18th century Icelandic scholar from Iceland.
Also widely known by his Danish name Arne Magnussen, Árni was a professor at the University of Copenhagen for many years, where he devoted most of his life to collecting and documenting medieval Icelandic manuscripts and his collection is known as the Arnamagnæan Codex.
He was depicted on the now obsolete Icelandic 100-króna banknote.
Educational institutions in both Copenhagen and Reykjavik are named after him. The Árni Magnússon Institute in Reykjavík preserves and conducts studies on the manuscripts he collected, amongst them Flateyjarbók.
See Icelandic Króna.
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