and having to move three times; the winter was harsh and when he fell ill, he had to have assistance to sign his will. He died early the next day, January 7, 1730, and was buried in the north choir of the still-ruined Vor Frue Kirke. His wife died in September and was buried beside him. He bequeathed his collection to the state with provision for its upkeep and for assistance to Icelandic students. It forms the basis of the Arnamagnæan Institute and associated stipends. Legacy Árni's remaining collection, now known as the Arnamagnæan Manuscript Collection, is now divided between two institutions, both named after him and both educational as well as archival in purpose: the Arnamagnæan Institute in Copenhagen and the Árni Magnússon Institute for Icelandic Studies in Reykjavík. The street Arni Magnussons Gade in the Kalvebod Brygge area of Copenhagen is named after him. He was depicted on the now-obsolete 100 Icelandic króna banknote. The character Arnas Arnæus in Nobel prize-winner Halldór Kiljan Laxness's novel Iceland's Bell (Íslandsklukkan) is based on him; the novel concerns the manslaughter case against Jón Hreggviðsson, a farmer whose conviction was eventually reversed in part due to Árni and Vídalín's investigations. Also Arne Saknussemm, a character in Jules Verne's Journey to the Center of the Earth, is based on him. References Sources Hans Bekker-Nielsen and Ole Widding. Tr. Robert W. Mattila. Árne Magnússon, the Manuscript Collector. Odense University Press, 1972. Már Jónsson. Arnas Magnæus Philologus (1663–1730). Viking collection 20. [Odense]: University Press of Southern Denmark, 2012. . External links 1663 births 1730 deaths 17th-century Danish scientists 18th-century Danish scientists 17th-century Icelandic people 18th-century Icelandic people Danish scholars Icelandic scholars Icelandic emigrants to Denmark Old Norse studies scholars University of Copenhagen alumni Academic staff of the University of Copenhagen Burials at the Church of Our Lady, Copenhagen Icelandic librarians Danish librarians