History of Iceland: Primary Documents
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- This mourning poem is for the son of the Viking, Rollo.
- It serves as "an excellent laboratory in medieval philology".
- (943; Latin facsimiles and variant text transcriptions with English and German translations)
- Originally written in Old Norse by the poet and historian Snorri Sturluson.
- (850-1177, written ca. 1225; English translation)
- Icelandic chronicles and sagas from the beginnings.
- (Up through 1578; transcriptions and commentary)
- See especially those sagas marked with an Icelandic flag.
- (Old Norse transcriptions)
- Provided by Berkeley's Online Medieval & Classical Library.
- Scroll to "Icelandic Old Norse" for saga texts.
- (English translations)
- Provided by the Perseus Collection.
- Particularly strong in Old Norse sagas.
- Note: Diacritics on the main page are illegible.
- (9th to 13th centuries; Old Norse transcriptions)
- Digitized by the Danish Royal Library.
- (1760; facsimiles)
- The Constitution of Iceland.
- (17 June 1944 with updates through 2002; Icelandic original).
- (17 June 1944 with updates through 1999; English translation)
- Library of Congress guide to constitutional, legal, and government documents.
- Manifestations of Europe in archival documents.
- See especially documents under Reykjavik.
- (Facsimiles and English summaries)
- Materials on the culture, government and history of Iceland.
- Includes summary statistics 1703-1890, among other things.
- (Facsimiles and transcriptions)
- Includes primary and secondary documents, provided by Don Mabry.
- (Transcriptions, facsimiles and commentaries, mostly in English)
- All maps held by the National and University Library of Iceland.
- (1544-1944; facsimiles)
- Maps of the North Atlantic from "Vinland" to Greenland, Iceland, Norway and Denmark.
- Digitized by the Danish Royal Library.
- (1570; facsimiles)
- A History of Nordic Travel.
- (16th to 20th centuries; facsimiles, transcriptions, maps)
- List of digitized newspapers in Icelandic and Danish.
- (1696-2002; Icelandic facsimiles)
- Digitized newspaper facsimiles.
- (2 November 1913 to 31 October 2011; Icelandic facsimiles)
- Also contains a collection of coats of arms for other European countries and principalities.
- (Facsimiles)
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EuroDocs Creator: Richard Hacken, European Studies Bibliographer,
Harold B. Lee Library, Brigham Young University, Provo, Utah, USA.
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