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Administration							79
	Archival lists/ lists of legal papers						44
	Boundaries						4
	Chartularies						63
	Contracts / Marriage settlements						4
	Diplomas						304
	Directives						3
	Documents concerning driftwood						1
	Driftwood sites/owners register						8
	Estate						15
	Freight letters / records						4
	Government						1
	Inheritance records						4
	Inheritance records						16
	Kvittunarbréf						1
	Land registers						63
	Legal papers of land estate						25
	Legal papers of land estate						44
	Official letter/ documents						192
		Official books					5
	Parliament						49
	Possessions inventories						24
	Power of attorney						4
	Property boundary registers						13
	Registers of sheep marks						1
		Sheep marks					2
	Statistical reports						2
	Testimonies						52
	Tithe						7
	Visitations						8
	gift vouchers						4
Anthropology							61
Antiquities							91
	Homilies						5
	Kings' sagas						170
	Kings' tales						79
	Mythical-heoric tales						37
	Mythical-heroic sagas						358
	Prose romances						455
	Sagas of Icelanders						635
	Sagas of bishops						132
	Sagas of contemporary history						74
	Saint's sagas						115
		Sagas of apostles					32
		Sagas of holy people					12
		Visions					6
	Tales of Icelanders						256
Arts							22
	Architecture						7
	Art						22
	Drama						2
	Music						38
Associations							45
Astronomy							71
	Calendars						51
		Almanacs					74
		Easter tables					2
		Old folkloristic books of weather forecast from Christmas for the next twelve months.					14
	Chronology						71
	Cosmology						2
Autobiographies							18
Biographies							154
Biography							48
	Censuses						22
		Professional registers					21
		Registers of writers / poets					22
	Diaries						232
	Epistles / Letters						482
		Letter books					53
		Letter collections					11
	Genealogy						57
		Genealogies					218
		Kirkjubækur					11
	Name registers						33
	Notebooks						58
	Private documents						254
Biography sections							211
Biology							6
Botany							48
Calendar							30
Chemistry							3
Codicology							16
	Ink						3
	Manuscript catalogues						24
	Philology						22
	Script						6
Communications							5
	Postal communications						2
Crime							6
	Adultery						1
	Theft						3
Dedication							4
Economics							67
Education							8
	Catechisms						5
	Grading						1
	Schools						112
		Reading					6
			Alphabet				31
		Text-books					65
Education							8
Encyclopedic wisdom							76
Essays							177
Eulogys/ Remembrance speeches							50
Exempla							43
Folk tales							99
	Galdrasögur						6
		Galdramenn					5
		Töfrabrögð					1
		Ófreskigáfur/Skyggni					3
	Ghost tales						13
		Afturgöngur					3
		Fylgjur					4
		Uppvakningar/sendingar					4
		Útburðir					2
	Goðfræðisögur						1
		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						5
		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						146
	Viðburðasögur						1
		Frá fornmönnum					4
		Sagnir frá seinni tíma					2
	Útilegumannasögur						3
Folkloristics/Ethnology							60
	Astrology						16
	Charms						34
		Magic books					15
	Dreams						115
		Interpretations of dreams					11
		Palm reading					14
		Signs of the zodiac					10
	Folk customs						26
		Clothing					1
		Cooking					13
		Festivities					7
		Textile products					5
		Weddings					17
	Prophecies						19
	Pseudo-history						61
	Superstition						113
	Visions						23
Geography							144
	Maps						7
	Toponymy						65
Geology							19
	Volcanos						36
Health							7
	Medicine						43
		Childbirth					12
		Healing					167
History							428
	Annals						199
	Art history						4
	Court history						4
	News						9
	Politics						46
	Population history						8
Humor							6
Humorous tales							20
Hymn sheets							12
Industries							43
	Agriculture						35
	Commerce						35
	Construction/smith-work with wood or iron						10
	Fishing						18
	Housekeeping						11
		Domestic manufacture					5
			Dyeing				1
			Weaving				4
	Industry						23
	Trade						58
Late mythical-heoric sagas							146
Late romances							113
Late sagas of Icelanders							70
Law							546
	Convictions						109
		Sentences					4
			Outlawry				1
			Prison				1
	Laws						283
		Canon law					110
	Lawspeakers						4
	Lawyers						13
	Members of goðorð						4
Lectures							38
Linguistics							185
	Corpora						38
	Dictionaries						24
	Letter codes						44
	Onomastics						24
		Place-names					24
	Orthography						10
	Runes						115
	Verbal definitions						76
Literary criticism							35
	Bibliographies						33
	History of literature						29
	Interpretations of poems / verses						28
	Lists of poems						30
	Metrics						57
		Metrical keys					13
	Poetics						20
	Rhetoric						68
	Stylistic						4
	Tables of contents / indexes						249
Literature							94
	Anecdotes						3
	Bibliography						83
	Books of ethics/etiquette						11
	Children's books						1
	Polemics						5
Magazines							58
Mathematics							48
Memoirs							16
Meteorology							80
	Sea ice						2
Mineralogy							29
Natural sciences							153
	Zoology						25
		Animals					6
			Birds				16
Newspapers							10
Notations							3
Notes (scholarly)							5
Novels							118
	Chapbooks						124
Obituaries							14
Philosophy							76
	Ethics						35
		Christian ethics					4
Photographs							8
Physics							5
Plays							89
Poetry							1556
	Adventure poems						5
	Ancient poems						18
	Beer poems						6
	Biography poems						7
	Confession						1
	Congratulatory poems						6
	Conjuration poems						3
	Cradle poems						1
	Dance poems						6
	Dance poems						3
	Dream poems						3
	Eddic poems						89
		Eddic interpretations					2
	Elegies/ commemorative poems						77
	Epic poetry in fornyrðislag with fairy-tale motifs						9
	Epistolary poems / Letter poems						68
	Epitaphs / Tomb inscriptions						26
	Epithalamia/ Wedding poems						25
	Faith poems						31
	Fatherland poems						2
	Folk poems						11
	Folk songs						7
		Notes (music)					21
	Heroic poems						10
	Heroic poems						1
	Humor poems						12
	Hymns						464
		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					19
		Easter hymns					8
		Evening hymns					36
		Exhortation hymns					9
		Hymns on the Nativity					3
		Morning hymns					31
		New year hymns					26
		Passion hymns					29
		Penitential hymns					12
		Season hymns					10
		Travel hymns					10
		Week hymns					37
	Hymns / Praise poems						9
	Instructive poems						2
	Ironic poems about the state of the world						8
	Laments						5
	Love poems						3
	Medieval poems						4
	Memorial poems						19
	Nursery rhymes						10
	Occasional poems						3
	Occasional poems						1
	Ogress poems						6
	Panegyrics/ Praise poems						11
	Poems about ancient heroes						7
	Poems about gods						9
	Poems about old age						3
	Poems on weather conditions						1
	Polemic poems						8
	Polemics						1
	Raven poems						1
	Rhymes						42
	Rímur/metrical romances						1239
		Bible rímur					1
	Saga poem						2
	Sailing poem						7
	Saints poems						83
	Scaldic poems						41
	Stanzas						286
	Tobacco poems						2
	Vision poems						3
	Weather poems						4
	Wisdom poems						2
Prolegomena / Prefaces							80
Proverbs							40
Religion							25
	Religions						5
		Catholicism					2
			Abbesses				1
			Abbots				2
				Saints			3
			Cloisters				4
			Monks				1
			Popes				4
		Christianity					23
			Bishops				112
			Church history				21
			Lutheranism				1
			Priest				76
		Theology					328
			Books on Christian religion/ meditations/ spiritual devotion				46
				Bible			56
					Apocrypha		11
					Bible commentary		11
					Bible stories		3
				Books of prayers			8
				Catechism			3
				Collections of sermons for loud reading at home			8
				Liturgy-books			2
				Meditations			3
				Prayers			186
					Miracles		2
					Week prayers		18
						Evening prayers	12
						Morning prayers	6
			Churches				59
			Heathendom				3
				Greek mythology			7
				Norse mythology			49
				Roman mythology			1
			Liturgics				14
				Liturgic songs			1
				Masses			37
					Missals		22
Requiem/ Masses for the dead							10
Riddles							92
Royal genealogies							28
Sayings							17
Sermons							97
Settlement							24
Short-stories							59
Speeches							51
Sports							6
	Games						10
		Chess					2
Story sections							72
Tales of wisdom							22
Translations							52
Travel stories							42
Travelogues							24