Only exclusive calfskin was used to make parchment in Iceland. Calfskin parchment is called vellum, and it took dozens of ...

"The Icelanders were part of a common European culture, and Iceland has been a great knowledge society for a long time," he ... for new books. A common method for reusing old manuscript pages ...

They do so by challenging the primacy of present over past, toppling the categories of old and new, and suggesting new interpretive frameworks for contemporary and medieval poetry alike -- in short, ...