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The 1783–1785 Laki-Grímsvötn eruptions
Table 1. List of Eldrit and relevant contemporary accounts describing the Laki eruption. Complete references
are given in the bibliography of Thordarson et al., this issue. Eldrit status is indicated by  and superscripted
roman numerals, that is EiríkssonI and Jón EiríkssonII are used here and in the main text to distinguish between
the authors. – Listi yfir eldritin og aðrar lykilheimildir um Skaftárelda.
Authors Title Comments
Höfundar Titill Athugasemdir
Jón Steingrímsson Lítið ágrip um nýja eldsuppkomu í vestariparti Skaftafellssýslu.
A short compendium of the recent volcanic outburst in western part of Skaftafellshire. Prestbakki, 4. July 1783.
Jón EiríkssonI Extract of Forpagter Erichsens Skrivelse.
Extract from agent Erichsens letter. Ljótarstaðir, 11. July 1783.
Johan C. Sünckenberg Skrivelse til den islandske Handels Direction.
Report to the Directors of the Iceland Division of the Royal Monopolistic Commerce. Stykkishólmur 24. July 1783
Lýður Guðmundsson Skýrsla til Thodals Stiftamtmanns.
Report by Lýður Guðmundsson sheriff of W-Skaftafellshire to Chief Prefect Thodal. Öxará (Þingvellir) 26. July 1783
Lýður Guðmundsson Bréf (Pro Memoria!)
Letter from Lýður Guðmundsson 2. August 1783
Ólafur Stephensen Extract af Amtm. Stephensen’s Brev til Conferenceraad Erichsen.
Extract from Prefect Stephensen’s letter to Deputy Erichsen. 15. August 1783
Jón Steingrímsson and Einföld og sönn frásaga um jarðeldshlaupið í Skaftafellssýslu árið 1783.
Sigurður Ólafsson A simple, but true narrative of the eruption in Skaftafellshire in the year 1783. Kirkjubæjarklaustur 24. Aug. 1783
Sigurður Ólafsson Um jarðeldinn í Skaftafellssýslu 1783
About the earth fire in Skaftafellshire 1783. Kirkjubæjarklaustur 27. Aug. 1783
Jón Steingrímsson Póstur úr bréfi til séra Bjarna Jónssonar.
Summary from a letter to Reverend Bjarni Jónsson. Prestbakki 31. Aug. 1783
Svendborg Extract af Assistent Svendborgs Skrivelse til Agent Pontoppidan.
Extract from assistant Svendborg letter to agent Pontoppidan. Hafnarfjörður 31. August 1783
Lýður Guðmundsson Bréf (Pro Memoria!).
Letter from Lýður Guðmundsson sheriff of Western Skaftafellshire. 1. September 1783
Árni Thorarinsson Hr. Provst. Thorarinsens Beretning. Undated, written in October 1783
Narrative by Reverend Thorarinsson.
Einar Björnsson Relation eins prests sem ár 1783 ferðaðist um sumarið á Suðurland
frá Múlasýslu yfir Skaftafells bæði áfram og heimleiðis.
Relation by one clergyman, who in the summer 1783 travelled across S-Iceland Undated, written in fall 1783
from Múlashire through Skaftafellshire, back and forth.
Jón EiríkssonII Efterretning om Ilds-Udbrydelsen i Vester Skaptafells-Syssel i Island.
A Narrative on the Eruption in Western-Skaftafellshire in Iceland. Copenhagen December 1783
Sæmundur M. Hólm Om Jordbranden paa Island i Aaret 1783. Copenhagen 25. February 1784
About the Earth Fire in Iceland the Year 1783.
Sveinn Pálsson Historia ignis in oriente Islandiae erumpentis anno 1783, quad innotuit in tractu
Skagafjördensi; complectitur historia in se et effectus varios.
The story of the earth fire that broke out in Eastern Iceland in the year 1783, as it was Written in spring 1784
observed in Skagafjörður; progress of the eruption and its various effects.
Magnús Stephensen Kort beskrivelse over den nye Vulcans Ildsprudning i Vester Skaptafields-Syssel
paa Island i Aaret 1783.
A short description of the new volcanic eruption in Western Skaftafellshire Copenhagen 1785
the year 1783.
Jón Pétursson Om Ildrögens kiendeligeste Virkninger, paa Nordlandet i Island 1783. Unpublished, the original script is lost.
About the perceptible effects of the volcanic haze in Northern Iceland in 1783. Information on its content is preserved
in rebuttal by M. Stephensen 26. June
1786
Jón Steingrímsson Fullkomið skrif um Síðueld.
A complete description on the Síða volcanic fire. Prestbakki 24. November 1788
Sveinn Pálsson Eldritið, viðbætir við lýsingar á Skaftáreldum 1783.
Book of Fire, additions to the descriptions of the Skaftá Fires (Laki eruption) 1783. Written in 1793 and 1794
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