Texts from selected manuscripts and private archives, transcribed by friends of the Manuscript Collection. You are welcome to use the texts, but if you intend to publish from them we recommend checking them against the originals. All the texts are in modern spelling, but the word forms are kept. Obvious errors were corrected and abbreviations expanded without marking. As a rule the punctuation of the manuscripts was not kept.
1. Helga Sigurðardóttir of Barkastaðir
Memoirs of Helga Sigurðardóttir of Barkastaðir (1847–1920). Lbs 363 fol. Transcribed by Guðrún Ingólfsdóttir. March 2025
2. Kristín Guðmundsdóttir at the Leprosy Hospital
Poems and hymns of Kristín Guðmundsdóttir (1859–1901). Lbs 2435 8vo. Transcribed by Guðrún Ingólfsdóttir. April 2025
3. Letters of Bríet Bjarnhéðinsdóttir
The letters of Bríet Bjarnhéðinsdóttir (1856–1940). Lbs 3587–3608 4to. Transcribed by Guðrún Ingólfsdóttir. May 2025
4. Poems of Kristrún Jónsdóttir
Poems of Kristrún Jónsdóttir (1806–1881). Lbs 4732 4to. Transcribed by Guðrún Ingólfsdóttir. January 2026
5. Poems of Sigríður Andrésdóttir
Poems of Sigríður Andrésdóttir (1788–1866). Lbs 2357 8vo. Transcribed by Guðrún Ingólfsdóttir. August 2025
6. Accounts by Jóna Valgerður Jónsdóttir
Accounts by Jóna Valgerður Jónsdóttir. Lbs 4616 4to. Transcribed by Guðrún Ingólfsdóttir. March 2025
7. Centuria Secunda
Centuria Secunda. Lbs 971 4to. Transcribed by Guðrún Ingólfsdóttir. December 2025
8. Sermon on repentance by the Reverend Páll Björnsson of Selárdalur
Sermon on repentance. Lbs 494 8vo. Transcribed by Guðrún Ingólfsdóttir. March 2026
9. Grænlandskrónika (Greenland Chronicle)
Lbs 150 4to. Transcribed by Guðrún Ingólfsdóttir. June 2026