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Total number of records: 5896

Top 10: Subject

Subject	Count
old norse literature	78
icelandic language	77
law	70
old norse language	55
medicine	54
sagas	54
geology	45
mythology, norse	40
icelandic literature	38
manuscripts, old norse	38

Top 10: Place

Place	Count
Iceland	709
Greenland	60
Norway	52
Faroe Islands	43
Denmark	38
Scandinavia	34
Shetland (Scotland)	27
America	19
Orkney (Scotland)	14
Hekla (Iceland)	10

Top 10: People and organisations

People and organisations	Count
Iceland	160
Thorvaldur Thoroddsen (1855-1921)	104
Finnur Jonsson (1858-1934)	81
Islenska Bokmenntafelag	64
Iceland. Althingi	54
Jon Sigurdsson (1811-1879)	47
Jon Sigurdsson	44
Finnur Jonsson	41
Jon Thorkelsson	41
Valdimar Asmundarson (1852-1902)	41

Count of Earliest date

Earliest date	Count
From 1500	1
From 1600	11
From 1700	166
From 1800	1717
From 1900	3600
From 2000	2

Count of Latest date

Latest date	Count
Up to 1599	1
Up to 1699	11
Up to 1799	160
Up to 1899	1609
Up to 1999	3695
Up to latest	21

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Icelandic

At the heart of this excellent working library for students of both Modern and Old Icelandic is Bogi Melsted's extensive collection. Melsted (1860-1929), a distinguished Icelandic historian and auth...

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Vaxandi vængir : aftur í aldir um ótrođnar slóđir

Þorsteinn Antonsson (1943-)

1990

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Helga. A poem. In seven cantos. By the Honorable William Herbert

Herbert, William (1778-1847)

1815

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Two Norse-Icelandic studies : Sponsors, writers and readers of early Norse literature, and A road paved with legends

Lönnroth, Lars

1990

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Legends of Icelandic magicians

Simpson, Jacqueline

1975

With classified indexes to tale types and motifs.

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Origines Islandicae : a collection of the more important sagas and other native writings relating to the settlement and early history of Iceland (v.1)

Powell, F York (1850-1904); Guðbrandur Vigfússon (1827-1889)

1905

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Origines Islandicae : a collection of the more important sagas and other native writings relating to the settlement and early history of Iceland (v.2)

Powell, F York (1850-1904); Guðbrandur Vigfússon (1827-1889)

1905

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Iceland and the Icelanders

Helgi P. Briem (1902-); Vigfús Sigurgeirsson

c1945

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Nokkrar athugasemdir við ritreglur blaðamanna í Reykjavík

Halldór Kr. Friðriksson (1819-1902)

1898

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The Icelandic homily book, Perg.15 4̊ in the Royal Library, Stockholm

Leeuw van Weenen, Andrea de (1941-)

1993

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Eyrbyggja saga

Valdimar Ásmundarson (1852-1902)

1895

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Proceedings of the first International Saga Conference, University of Edinburgh, 1971

Foote, Peter (1924-2009); Hermann Pálsson (1921-2002); Slay, Desmond

1973