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'Árni Magnússon' (13 November 1663–7 January 1730) was an Icelandic scholar and collector of manuscripts.
Also widely known by his Danish name Arne Magnussen, Árni was a professor at the University of Copenhagen for many years, where he devoted most of his life to collecting and documenting medieval Icelandic manuscripts. His collection is known as the Arnamagnæan Codex.
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.
Educational institutions in both Copenhagen and Reykjavik are named after him. The Árni Magnússon Institute in Reykjavík preserves and conducts studies on the manuscripts he collected, amongst them Flateyjarbók.