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Administration
	Archival lists/ lists of legal papers						20
	Boundaries						4
	Chartularies						51
	Contracts/Marriage settlements						4
	Diplomas						295
	Directives						3
	Documents concerning driftwood						2
	Driftwood sites/owners register						8
	Estate						13
	Freight letters/ records						4
	Government						1
	Inheritance records						2
	Inheritance records						16
	Kvittunarbréf						2
	Land registers						44
	Legal papers of land estate						23
	Legal papers of land estate						43
	Official letter/ documents						105
		Official books					1
	Parliament						36
	Possessions inventories						22
	Property boundary registers						12
	Registers of sheep marks						1
		Sheep marks					2
	Statistical reports						2
	Testimonies						50
	Tithe						1
	Visitations						4
	gift vouchers						4
	power of attorney						4
Antiquities
	Homilies						5
	Kings' sagas						168
	Kings' tales						77
	Mythical-heoric tales						37
	Mythical-heroic sagas						343
	Prose romances						446
	Sagas of Icelanders						630
	Sagas of bishops						131
	Sagas of contemporary history						73
	Saint's sagas						114
		Sagas of apostles					30
		Sagas of holy people					12
		Visions					6
	Tales of Icelanders						250
Arts
	Architecture						7
	Art						22
	Drama						2
	Music						29
Astronomy
	Calendars						48
		Almanacs					66
		Easter tables					2
		Old folkloristic books of weather forecast from Christmas for the next twelve months.					13
	Chronology						66
	Cosmology						2
Biography
	Censuses						14
		Professional registers					21
		Registers of writers / poets					22
	Diaries						216
	Epistles/ Letters						402
		Letter books					49
		Letter collections					11
	Genealogy						55
		Genealogies					212
		Kirkjubækur					1
	Name registers						31
	Notebooks						55
	Private documents						220
Codicology
	Ink						3
	Manuscript catalogues						20
	Philology						22
	Script						4
Communications
	Postal communications						1
Crime
	Adultery						1
	Theft						3
Education
	Catechisms						5
	Grading						1
	Schools						107
		Reading					6
			Alphabet				31
		Text-books					62
Eulogys/ Remembrance speeches							1
Folk tales
	Galdrasögur						6
		Galdramenn					5
		Töfrabrögð					1
		Ófreskigáfur/Skyggni					3
	Ghost tales						12
		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						4
		Fyrirboðar					3
		Fyrirburðir					1
	Kímnisögur						1
		Níska/hrekkir					1
		Um klerka og kirkjulega hluti					1
	Náttúrusögur						1
		Dýrasögur					4
		Grasasögur					3
		Loftsjónir/tunglsögur					1
		Sjór					5
		Steinasögur					3
		Örnefnasögur					4
	Tales/ fairy-tales/ exempla						144
	Viðburðasögur						1
		Frá fornmönnum					4
		Sagnir frá seinni tíma					1
	Útilegumannasögur						3
Folkloristics/Ethnology
	Astrology						13
	Charms						32
		Magic books					15
	Dreams						112
		Interpretations of dreams					11
		Palm reading					14
		Signs of the zodiac					6
	Folk customs						26
		Cooking					13
		Festivities					7
		Textile products					5
		Weddings					15
	Prophecies						19
	Pseudo-history						61
	Superstition						111
	Visions						23
Geography
	Maps						7
	Toponymy						62
Geology
	Volcanos						35
Health
	Medicine						43
		Childbirth					12
		Healing					163
History							1
	Annals						193
	Art history						4
	Court history						4
	News						9
	Politics						44
	Population history						8
Industries
	Agriculture						32
	Commerce						31
	Construction/smith-work with wood or iron						10
	Fishing						17
	Housekeeping						11
		Domestic manufacture					5
			Dyeing				1
			Weaving				4
	Industry						22
	Trade						57
Late romances							2
Law
	Convictions						89
		Sentences					4
			Outlawry				1
			Prison				1
	Laws						277
		Canon law					92
	Lawspeakers						4
	Lawyers						13
	Members of goðorð						4
Linguistics
	Corpora						37
	Dictionaries						22
	Letter codes						43
	Onomastics						18
		Place-names					23
	Orthography						10
	Runes						111
	Verbal definitions						74
Literary criticism
	Bibliographies						31
	History of literature						29
	Interpretations of poems/ verses						27
	Lists of poems						29
	Metrics						57
		Metrical keys					12
	Poetics						20
	Rhetoric						67
	Stylistic						4
	Tables of contents/ indexes						233
Literature
	Anecdotes						3
	Bibliography						71
	Books of ethics/etiquette						11
	Children's books						1
	Polemics						5
Meteorology
	Sea ice						2
Natural sciences
	Zoology						24
		Animals					5
			Birds				16
Novels
	Chapbooks						116
Philosophy
	Ethics						35
		Christian ethics					4
Poetry							9
	Adventure poems						4
	Ancient poems						17
	Beer poems						6
	Biography poems						7
	Confession						1
	Congratulatory poems						4
	Conjuration poems						2
	Cradle poems						1
	Dance poems						6
	Dance poems						3
	Dream poems						3
	Eddic poems						89
		Eddic interpretations					2
	Elegies/ commemorative poems						73
	Epic poetry in fornyrðislag with fairy-tale motifs						9
	Epistolary poems/Letter poems						64
	Epitaphs/ Tomb inscriptions						26
	Epithalamia/ Wedding poems						23
	Faith poems						31
	Fatherland poems						1
	Folk poems						11
	Folk songs						7
		Notes					22
	Heroic poems						10
	Heroic poems						1
	Humor poems						12
	Hymns						429
		Alphabet hymns					7
		Baptism hymns					1
		Bible hymns					10
		Christmas hymns					17
		Commandment hymns					4
		Conformation hymns					1
		Consolation hymns					8
		Consolation poems					6
		Death hymns					17
		Easter hymns					8
		Evening hymns					33
		Exhortation hymns					9
		Hymns on the Nativity					3
		Morning hymns					28
		New year hymns					25
		Passion hymns					26
		Penitential hymns					10
		Season hymns					9
		Travel hymns					9
		Week hymns					33
	Hymns/ Praise poems						8
	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						41
	Rímur/metrical romances						1206
		Bible rímur					1
	Saga poem						2
	Sailing poem						7
	Saints poems						80
	Scaldic poems						39
	Stanzas						280
	Tobacco poems						2
	Vision poems						3
	Weather poems						4
	Wisdom poems						2
Religion
	Religions						5
		Catholicism					1
			Abbesses				1
			Abbots				2
				Saints			3
			Cloisters				4
			Monks				1
			Popes				4
		Christianity					21
			Bishops				112
			Church history				19
			Lutheranism				1
			Priest				68
		Theology					313
			Books on Christian religion/ meditations/ spiritual devotion				43
				Bible			38
					Apocrypha		11
					Bible commentary		3
					Bible stories		2
				Books of prayers			8
				Catechism			3
				Collections of sermons for loud reading at home			8
				Liturgy-books			2
				Prayers			169
					Miracles		2
					Week prayers		17
						Evening prayers	12
						Morning prayers	6
			Churches				51
			Heathendom				3
				Greek mythology			7
				Norse mythology			47
				Roman mythology			1
			Liturgics				13
				Masses			36
					Missals		18
Sports
	Games						8
		Chess					2