1. Guest Editorial

   • A. E. J. Ogilvie
   • T. Jónsson

   Editorial Introduction Pages: 1 - 3

2. The "Little Ice Age": Local and Global Perspectives

   • P.D. Jones
   • K.R. Briffa

   Preface Pages: 5 - 8

3. Dedication

   Dedication Pages: 6 - 6

4. "Little Ice Age" Research: A Perspective from Iceland

   • A.E.J. Ogilvie
   • T. Jónsson

   OriginalPaper Pages: 9 - 52

5. The Initiation of the "Little Ice Age" in Regions Round the North Atlantic

   • J.M. Grove

   OriginalPaper Pages: 53 - 82

6. Oceanographic Change and Terrestrial Human Impacts in a Post A.D. 1400 Sediment Record from the Southwest Iceland Shelf

   • A.E. Jennings
   • S. Hagen
   • I. Jónsdóttir

   OriginalPaper Pages: 83 - 100

7. The Time Period A.D. 1400-1980 in Central Greenland Ice Cores in Relation to the North Atlantic Sector

   • L.K. Barlow

   OriginalPaper Pages: 101 - 119

8. The "Little Ice Age" and its Geomorphological Consequences in Mediterranean Europe

   • A.T. Grove

   OriginalPaper Pages: 121 - 136

9. Is there an Insect Signal for the "Little Ice Age"?

   • Paul C. Buckland
   • Pat E. Wagner

   OriginalPaper Pages: 137 - 149

10. Can Lichenometry be Used to Date the "Little Ice Age" Glacial Maximum in Iceland?

    • Martin P. Kirkbride
    • Andrew J. Dugmore

    OriginalPaper Pages: 151 - 167

11. Early Instrumental Meteorological Observations in Iceland

    • Trausti Jónsson
    • Hilmar Garđarsson

    OriginalPaper Pages: 169 - 187

12. The Tallinn Temperature Series Reconstructed Back Half a Millennium by Use of Proxy Data

    • A. Tarand
    • P.Ø. Nordli

    OriginalPaper Pages: 189 - 199

13. Reconstruction of Nineteenth Century Summer Temperatures in Norway by Proxy Data from Farmers'Diaries

    • P.Ø. Nordli

    OriginalPaper Pages: 201 - 218

14. Zonal Indices for Europe 1780–1995 and Running Correlations with Temperature

    • Jucundus Jacobeit
    • Peter Jönsson
    • Marie Ekström

    OriginalPaper Pages: 219 - 241

15. A Quantitative Assessment of Buffers among Temperature Variations, Livestock, and the Human Population of Iceland, 1784 to 1900

    • Daniel E. Vasey

    OriginalPaper Pages: 243 - 263