Collected file [now rehoused but the original file bore the title 'Book of Kells' on the cover]. Contains manuscript and typescript notes on a variety of subjects, as follows:
Manuscript notes headed ‘Books enjoyed Sept 1958’;
Manuscript notes headed ‘GF’s Icelanders’ [Gudur Finnbogason’s Islendingar?]
Manuscript notes headed ‘Njall’ [the Njals saga];
Manuscript notes headed ‘Beowulf: What I tell you 3 times is true’;
Typescript notes headed ‘Tristrams Kvædi’ [an Icelandic ballad];
Typescript headed ‘Gutten og fanden’ [Norwegian folk tale which translates as ‘The Boy and the Devil’];
Typescript headed ‘The Tree of Knowledge’ [concerning Adam and Eve and the garden of Eden], in English [translation by Jean Young?], by Gudrun Finnsdottir 1946;
Manuscript notes headed ‘Eystein Asgrimsson of Thykvabaer "Lilie" ' (not in Jean Young's hand: concerns a translation of an Icelandic work of spiritual lyrics);
Typescript headed ‘The Big sea serpent’ [Hans Christian Andersen tale about the laying of a telegraph cable between Europe and America] - [translation from the Danish by JY?];
Typescript headed ‘New Iceland’ (in English [transl. by JY?], concerning Torfi Torfason and his life in America), with many manuscript alterations and additions;
Typescript headed ‘Four Days on a Bicycle through Denmark’ [1933], 5pp [presumably describing a journey taken by Jean Young];
‘Kells, Book Of’: comprises typescript and manuscript notes forming an introduction to the Book of Kells; also notes on early Christian Irish art, including the Tara Brooch and the Ardagh Chalice. 1967.