Skírnir

Literary/ Cultural Context Essay

Ármann Jakobsson (University of Iceland)

Ed. by Ármann Jakobsson, University of Iceland
The Literary Encyclopedia. Volume 1.3.4: Icelandic Writing and Culture.
Vol. editors: Ármann Jakobsson (University of Iceland), Kjerstin Moody (Gustavus Adolphus College), Sven Hakon Rossel (Universitat Wien), Herbert Rowland (Purdue University), Jakob Stougaard-Nielsen (University College London)

Domains

Publishing

Dates

Date of occurrence c.1816-

Places

Iceland (Location)

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Skírnir

is the journal of

Hið íslenska bókmenntafélag

(est. 1816). It was founded in 1827 as the successor to

Íslenzk sagnablöð

, and is currently the oldest cultural journal in Northern Europe. In the nineteenth century,

Skírnir

mostly carried news from Iceland and abroad along with obituaries and memorial poems. At the time it was Icelanders’ main source of information about distant places such as Africa, Asia and South America and is an important source for Icelandic ideas about the world in the nineteenth century.

Skírnir was changed into a scholarly and cultural journal in the early nineteenth century, carrying articles about literature, philosophy, history, and current affairs, and has since then published many important studies plus texts from some of Icelandic finest

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Citation: Jakobsson, Ármann. "Skírnir". The Literary Encyclopedia. First published 11 August 2023 [https://www.litencyc.com/php/stopics.php?rec=true&UID=19680, accessed 04 May 2024.]

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