Guðrún Nordal#
| Membership Number: | 5897 |
| Membership type: | ORDINARY |
| Section: | LITERARY & THEATRICAL STUDIES |
| Elected: | 2021 |
| Main Country of Residence: | ICELAND |
Present and Previous Positions
- 2009 Director, Arni Magnusson Institute for Icelandic Studies
- 2004 Professor, University of Iceland
- 2001 Associate Professor, University of Iceland
- 1997 Senior Research Fellow, Arni Magnusson Institute for Icelandic Studies
- 1993 Research Fellow, Research Council Iceland
- 1990 Lecturer, University College London
Fields of Scholarship
- Manuscript studies and editing
- Textual criticism
- Medieval Icelandic literature
- Medieval poetics
Honours and Awards
- 2020 Norwegian Academy of Science and Letters, Elected a Foreign Fellow
- 2020 The Jóns Sigurðsson Endowment. Prize for the book Skiptidagar
- 2018 Women‘s Literary Prize (Fjöruverðlaunin): The Book Skiptidagar shortlisted
- 2010 Gustav Adolfs Akademien, Uppsala: Elected a Foreign Fellow
- 2017 The Order of the Dannebrog. Awarded by Queen Margarethe
- 2017 Royal Norwegian Order of Merit. Awarded by King Harald
- 2016 - 2017 Fulbright Commission. Visiting Scholar Berkeley, US
- 2013 The Order of the White Rose of Finland. Awarded by President Sauli V. Niinistö
- 2010 The Order of the Falcon. Awarded by the President Ólafi Ragnari Grímssyni
- 2001 Gustav Adolfs Akademien, Uppsala. Prize, Dag Stömbäck Fond for Tools of Literacy (2001)
- 1997 The Jóns Sigurðsson Endowment. Prize for the book Ethics and Action
- 1992 The Icelandic Literary Prize, in the category of non-fiction
- For The Íslensk bókmenntasaga I, with Vésteinn Ólason and Sverrir Tómasson
