sentences:  Professor Guðrún Nordal took over as director of the institute on 1 March 2009, appointed for a period of five years.After Iceland received home rule from the Danish government in 1904, the Icelandic parliament (Alþingi) began to petition for the return to Iceland of at least a significant portion of the Arnamagnæan Manuscript Collection, the manuscripts and other documents collected in the late 17th and early 18th centuries by the Icelandic antiquarian and scholar Árni Magnússon.In 1927-28 four manuscripts and some 700 charters and other legal documents were returned to the Icelandic National Archives.