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Administration							79
	Archival lists/ lists of legal papers						44
	Boundaries						14
	Chartularies						68
	Contracts / Marriage settlements						11
	Diplomas						508
	Directives						4
	Documents concerning driftwood						4
	Driftwood sites/owners register						9
	Estate						16
	Freight letters / records						4
	Government						1
	Inheritance records						10
	Inheritance records						19
	Kvittunarbréf						21
	Land registers						66
	Legal papers of land estate						29
	Legal papers of land estate						69
	Official letter/ documents						198
		Official books					5
	Parliament						57
	Possessions inventories						26
	Power of attorney						7
	Property boundary registers						13
	Registers of sheep marks						2
		Sheep marks					3
	Statistical reports						2
	Testimonies						117
	Tithe						14
	Visitations						8
	gift vouchers						4
Anthropology							68
Antiquities							90
	Homilies						5
	Kings' sagas						177
	Kings' tales						80
	Mythical-heoric tales						37
	Mythical-heroic sagas						366
	Prose romances						485
	Sagas of Icelanders						644
	Sagas of bishops						138
	Sagas of contemporary history						74
	Saint's sagas						117
		Sagas of apostles					39
		Sagas of holy people					12
		Visions					6
	Tales of Icelanders						259
Arts							22
	Architecture						7
	Art						22
	Drama						2
	Music						39
Associations							46
Astronomy							76
	Calendars						73
		Almanacs					82
		Easter tables					3
		Old folkloristic books of weather forecast from Christmas for the next twelve months.					15
	Chronology						80
	Cosmology						2
Autobiographies							22
Biographies							179
Biography							50
	Censuses						28
		Professional registers					33
		Registers of writers / poets					23
	Diaries						237
	Epistles / Letters						516
		Letter books					58
		Letter collections					11
	Genealogy						59
		Genealogies					250
		Kirkjubækur					13
	Name registers						36
	Notebooks						59
	Private documents						263
Biography sections							215
Biology							6
Botany							50
Calendar							31
Chemistry							3
Codicology							16
	Ink						3
	Manuscript catalogues						24
	Philology						23
	Script						7
Communications							6
	Postal communications						2
Crime							6
	Adultery						3
	Theft						3
Dedication							4
Economics							78
Education							8
	Catechisms						5
	Grading						1
	Schools						121
		Reading					6
			Alphabet				31
		Text-books					66
Education							8
Encyclopedic wisdom							92
Essays							196
Eulogys/ Remembrance speeches							60
Exempla							45
Folk tales							107
	Galdrasögur						6
		Galdramenn					5
		Töfrabrögð					3
		Ófreskigáfur/Skyggni					3
	Ghost tales						13
		Afturgöngur					3
		Fylgjur					4
		Uppvakningar/sendingar					4
		Útburðir					2
	Goðfræðisögur						3
		Dwarf tales					2
		Elf tales					9
		Huldufólk tales					10
		Sæbúar og vatna					4
		Troll tales					7
		Umskiptingar					1
	Helgisögur
		Guð og kölski					4
		Helgir menn					2
		Hjátrú					5
	Kreddur						9
		Fyrirboðar					3
		Fyrirburðir					1
	Kímnisögur						1
		Níska/hrekkir					1
		Um klerka og kirkjulega hluti					3
	Náttúrusögur						1
		Dýrasögur					4
		Grasasögur					3
		Loftsjónir/tunglsögur					1
		Sjór					5
		Steinasögur					3
		Örnefnasögur					4
	Tales/ fairy-tales/ exempla						149
	Viðburðasögur						1
		Frá fornmönnum					4
		Kirkjusögur					2
		Sagnir frá seinni tíma					2
	Útilegumannasögur						3
Folkloristics/Ethnology							64
	Astrology						17
	Charms						41
		Magic books					15
	Dreams						122
		Interpretations of dreams					11
		Palm reading					14
		Signs of the zodiac					11
	Folk customs						27
		Clothing					1
		Cooking					13
		Festivities					7
		Textile products					5
		Weddings					22
	Prophecies						22
	Pseudo-history						63
	Superstition						121
	Visions						23
Geography							157
	Maps						7
	Toponymy						70
Geology							19
	Volcanos						36
Health							7
	Medicine						44
		Childbirth					12
		Healing					184
History							460
	Annals						217
	Art history						4
	Court history						4
	News						15
	Politics						46
	Population history						9
Humor							6
Humorous tales							20
Hymn sheets							12
Industries							45
	Agriculture						35
	Commerce						39
	Construction/smith-work with wood or iron						11
	Fishing						18
	Housekeeping						11
		Domestic manufacture					5
			Dyeing				2
			Weaving				4
	Industry						24
	Trade						63
Late mythical-heoric sagas							149
Late romances							117
Late sagas of Icelanders							72
Law							592
	Convictions						168
		Sentences					4
			Outlawry				1
			Prison				1
	Laws						311
		Canon law					114
	Lawspeakers						4
	Lawyers						15
	Members of goðorð						4
Lectures							42
Linguistics							221
	Corpora						66
	Dictionaries						30
	Letter codes						45
	Onomastics						25
		Place-names					25
	Orthography						13
	Runes						120
	Verbal definitions						81
Literary criticism							41
	Bibliographies						35
	History of literature						31
	Interpretations of poems / verses						29
	Lists of poems						30
	Metrics						59
		Metrical keys					16
	Poetics						20
	Rhetoric						74
	Stylistic						4
	Tables of contents / indexes						266
Literature							105
	Anecdotes						3
	Bibliography						90
	Books of ethics/etiquette						11
	Children's books						1
	Polemics						5
Magazines							58
Mathematics							55
Memoirs							17
Meteorology							82
	Sea ice						2
Mineralogy							30
Natural sciences							165
	Zoology						27
		Animals					6
			Birds				16
Newspapers							11
Notations							3
Notes (scholarly)							5
Novels							125
	Chapbooks						127
Obituaries							17
Philosophy							90
	Ethics						40
		Christian ethics					4
Photographs							8
Physics							6
Plays							95
Poetry							1817
	Adventure poems						5
	Ancient poems						19
	Beer poems						6
	Biography poems						7
	Confession						1
	Congratulatory poems						6
	Conjuration poems						3
	Cradle poems						2
	Dance poems						6
	Dance poems						3
	Dream poems						4
	Eddic poems						91
		Eddic interpretations					2
	Elegies/ commemorative poems						94
	Epic poetry in fornyrðislag with fairy-tale motifs						9
	Epistolary poems / Letter poems						74
	Epitaphs / Tomb inscriptions						28
	Epithalamia/ Wedding poems						26
	Faith poems						32
	Fatherland poems						2
	Folk poems						11
	Folk songs						7
		Notes (music)					21
	Heroic poems						11
	Heroic poems						2
	Humor poems						15
	Hymns						558
		Alphabet hymns					8
		Baptism hymns					1
		Bible hymns					10
		Christmas hymns					18
		Commandment hymns					4
		Conformation hymns					1
		Consolation hymns					9
		Consolation poems					6
		Death hymns					20
		Easter hymns					8
		Evening hymns					37
		Exhortation hymns					9
		Hymns on the Nativity					3
		Morning hymns					31
		New year hymns					26
		Passion hymns					29
		Penitential hymns					14
		Season hymns					10
		Travel hymns					10
		Week hymns					38
	Hymns / Praise poems						9
	Instructive poems						2
	Ironic poems about the state of the world						4
	Laments						5
	Love poems						3
	Medieval poems						4
	Memorial poems						20
	Nursery rhymes						10
	Occasional poems						3
	Occasional poems						1
	Ogress poems						7
	Panegyrics/ Praise poems						11
	Poems about ancient heroes						7
	Poems about gods						10
	Poems about old age						3
	Poems on weather conditions						2
	Polemic poems						13
	Polemics						1
	Raven poems						1
	Rhymes						43
	Rímur/metrical romances						1414
		Bible rímur					1
	Saga poem						2
	Sailing poem						7
	Saints poems						97
	Scaldic poems						41
	Stanzas						292
	Tobacco poems						2
	Vision poems						3
	Weather poems						4
	Wisdom poems						2
Prolegomena / Prefaces							81
Proverbs							47
Psychology							1
Religion							26
	Religions						5
		Catholicism					2
			Abbesses				2
			Abbots				3
				Saints			3
			Cloisters				5
			Monks				1
			Popes				4
		Christianity					24
			Bishops				118
			Church history				24
			Lutheranism				1
			Priest				85
		Theology					384
			Books on Christian religion/ meditations/ spiritual devotion				55
				Bible			58
					Apocrypha		11
					Bible commentary		12
					Bible stories		4
				Books of prayers			8
				Catechism			3
				Collections of sermons for loud reading at home			8
				Liturgy-books			2
				Meditations			4
				Prayers			220
					Miracles		2
					Week prayers		20
						Evening prayers	12
						Morning prayers	6
			Churches				61
			Heathendom				4
				Greek mythology			7
				Norse mythology			57
				Roman mythology			1
			Liturgics				14
				Liturgic songs			1
				Masses			39
					Missals		22
Requiem/ Masses for the dead							10
Riddles							96
Royal genealogies							31
Sayings							17
Sermons							104
Settlement							26
Short-stories							65
Speeches							64
Sports							6
	Games						10
		Chess					2
Story sections							77
Tales of wisdom							22
Translations							53
Travel stories							44
Travelogues							28