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On Monday (August 13th 2018) at Bessastaðir, the Icelandic president’s residence, new members of the Order of the Falcon were honored including Professor John Lindow and Professor Carol Clover

Modern Icelandic is a language spoken fluently by about 320,000 of the world’s more than 7 billion inhabitants, and now more maybe be speaking it as UC Berkeley offers it as a regular course for the first time this fall.

The idea is to facilitate Berkeley students’ work on Iceland by relating to the language made legendary by Viking sagas about the explorers’ ninth-century settlement of the island on the southern edge of the Arctic Circle.