2014Iceland- Denmark Joint Issue - Miniature Sheet

Iceland Post and Post Denmark are releasing a joint stamp issue featuring manuscripts from the Arnamagnæan Collection preserved by the Árni Magnússon Institute for Icelandic Studies and Nordisk Forskningsinstitut in Copenhagen. The manuscripts are The Book of Kálfalækur including the Saga of Burnt Niall and a Danish manuscript which contains legal statutes for Sjælland. Árni Magnússon is best known for having collected manuscripts in Iceland and elsewhere and for the Land Register which he wrote with district magistrate and poet