Margrét Eggertsdóttir, Research Professor at The Árni Magnússon Institute of Icelandic Studies in Reykjavík, received her degrees at the University of Iceland (B.A. 1984, cand. mag. 1989 and dr. phil. 2005). She studied German baroque literature at the University of Tübingen in 1991–1992. From 1992 she has been a member of the staff at The Árni Magnússon Institute in Reykjavík, apart from the years 1999–2002 when she was lecturer in Icelandic language and literature at the University of Copenhagen. She is one of the editors of a complete edition of the works of Hallgrímur Pétursson (1614–1674), which is under way at the institute and has written extensively on Icelandic seventeenth-century literature, including a monograph on Hallgrímur Pétursson, published in English 2014, translated by Andrew Wawn entitled: Icelandic Baroque. Poetic Art and Erudition in the Works of Hallgrímur Pétursson.