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Administration							79
	Archival lists/ lists of legal papers						44
	Boundaries						12
	Chartularies						68
	Contracts / Marriage settlements						8
	Diplomas						503
	Directives						4
	Documents concerning driftwood						2
	Driftwood sites/owners register						9
	Estate						15
	Freight letters / records						4
	Government						1
	Inheritance records						10
	Inheritance records						16
	Kvittunarbréf						20
	Land registers						64
	Legal papers of land estate						28
	Legal papers of land estate						69
	Official letter/ documents						197
		Official books					5
	Parliament						57
	Possessions inventories						25
	Power of attorney						4
	Property boundary registers						13
	Registers of sheep marks						1
		Sheep marks					2
	Statistical reports						2
	Testimonies						114
	Tithe						11
	Visitations						8
	gift vouchers						4
Anthropology							67
Antiquities							90
	Homilies						5
	Kings' sagas						176
	Kings' tales						80
	Mythical-heoric tales						37
	Mythical-heroic sagas						363
	Prose romances						477
	Sagas of Icelanders						639
	Sagas of bishops						134
	Sagas of contemporary history						74
	Saint's sagas						116
		Sagas of apostles					38
		Sagas of holy people					12
		Visions					6
	Tales of Icelanders						258
Arts							22
	Architecture						7
	Art						22
	Drama						2
	Music						39
Associations							45
Astronomy							74
	Calendars						69
		Almanacs					78
		Easter tables					3
		Old folkloristic books of weather forecast from Christmas for the next twelve months.					15
	Chronology						78
	Cosmology						2
Autobiographies							20
Biographies							169
Biography							49
	Censuses						26
		Professional registers					31
		Registers of writers / poets					23
	Diaries						235
	Epistles / Letters						498
		Letter books					58
		Letter collections					11
	Genealogy						59
		Genealogies					240
		Kirkjubækur					13
	Name registers						36
	Notebooks						59
	Private documents						262
Biography sections							215
Biology							6
Botany							48
Calendar							31
Chemistry							3
Codicology							16
	Ink						3
	Manuscript catalogues						24
	Philology						23
	Script						7
Communications							6
	Postal communications						2
Crime							6
	Adultery						1
	Theft						3
Dedication							4
Economics							75
Education							8
	Catechisms						5
	Grading						1
	Schools						114
		Reading					6
			Alphabet				31
		Text-books					65
Education							8
Encyclopedic wisdom							82
Essays							191
Eulogys/ Remembrance speeches							51
Exempla							45
Folk tales							104
	Galdrasögur						6
		Galdramenn					5
		Töfrabrögð					1
		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						8
		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						147
	Viðburðasögur						1
		Frá fornmönnum					4
		Sagnir frá seinni tíma					2
	Útilegumannasögur						3
Folkloristics/Ethnology							62
	Astrology						16
	Charms						36
		Magic books					15
	Dreams						119
		Interpretations of dreams					11
		Palm reading					14
		Signs of the zodiac					10
	Folk customs						27
		Clothing					1
		Cooking					13
		Festivities					7
		Textile products					5
		Weddings					20
	Prophecies						20
	Pseudo-history						63
	Superstition						116
	Visions						23
Geography							154
	Maps						7
	Toponymy						68
Geology							19
	Volcanos						36
Health							7
	Medicine						43
		Childbirth					12
		Healing					175
History							456
	Annals						214
	Art history						4
	Court history						4
	News						10
	Politics						46
	Population history						9
Humor							6
Humorous tales							20
Hymn sheets							12
Industries							43
	Agriculture						35
	Commerce						38
	Construction/smith-work with wood or iron						10
	Fishing						18
	Housekeeping						11
		Domestic manufacture					5
			Dyeing				1
			Weaving				4
	Industry						23
	Trade						59
Late mythical-heoric sagas							148
Late romances							116
Late sagas of Icelanders							71
Law							570
	Convictions						163
		Sentences					4
			Outlawry				1
			Prison				1
	Laws						301
		Canon law					113
	Lawspeakers						4
	Lawyers						15
	Members of goðorð						4
Lectures							40
Linguistics							197
	Corpora						65
	Dictionaries						25
	Letter codes						45
	Onomastics						24
		Place-names					25
	Orthography						11
	Runes						117
	Verbal definitions						79
Literary criticism							37
	Bibliographies						33
	History of literature						30
	Interpretations of poems / verses						28
	Lists of poems						30
	Metrics						57
		Metrical keys					15
	Poetics						20
	Rhetoric						71
	Stylistic						4
	Tables of contents / indexes						258
Literature							102
	Anecdotes						3
	Bibliography						87
	Books of ethics/etiquette						11
	Children's books						1
	Polemics						5
Magazines							58
Mathematics							51
Memoirs							16
Meteorology							81
	Sea ice						2
Mineralogy							29
Natural sciences							159
	Zoology						27
		Animals					6
			Birds				16
Newspapers							10
Notations							3
Notes (scholarly)							5
Novels							122
	Chapbooks						125
Obituaries							15
Philosophy							81
	Ethics						38
		Christian ethics					4
Photographs							8
Physics							5
Plays							91
Poetry							1731
	Adventure poems						5
	Ancient poems						18
	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						90
		Eddic interpretations					2
	Elegies/ commemorative poems						85
	Epic poetry in fornyrðislag with fairy-tale motifs						9
	Epistolary poems / Letter poems						73
	Epitaphs / Tomb inscriptions						27
	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						14
	Hymns						514
		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					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						9
	Poems about old age						3
	Poems on weather conditions						2
	Polemic poems						13
	Polemics						1
	Raven poems						1
	Rhymes						43
	Rímur/metrical romances						1337
		Bible rímur					1
	Saga poem						2
	Sailing poem						7
	Saints poems						87
	Scaldic poems						41
	Stanzas						290
	Tobacco poems						2
	Vision poems						3
	Weather poems						4
	Wisdom poems						2
Prolegomena / Prefaces							81
Proverbs							44
Psychology							1
Religion							25
	Religions						5
		Catholicism					2
			Abbesses				2
			Abbots				3
				Saints			3
			Cloisters				5
			Monks				1
			Popes				4
		Christianity					24
			Bishops				117
			Church history				22
			Lutheranism				1
			Priest				83
		Theology					367
			Books on Christian religion/ meditations/ spiritual devotion				53
				Bible			56
					Apocrypha		11
					Bible commentary		12
					Bible stories		3
				Books of prayers			8
				Catechism			3
				Collections of sermons for loud reading at home			8
				Liturgy-books			2
				Meditations			4
				Prayers			206
					Miracles		2
					Week prayers		18
						Evening prayers	12
						Morning prayers	6
			Churches				61
			Heathendom				3
				Greek mythology			7
				Norse mythology			50
				Roman mythology			1
			Liturgics				14
				Liturgic songs			1
				Masses			37
					Missals		22
Requiem/ Masses for the dead							10
Riddles							94
Royal genealogies							31
Sayings							17
Sermons							101
Settlement							26
Short-stories							61
Speeches							57
Sports							6
	Games						10
		Chess					2
Story sections							76
Tales of wisdom							22
Translations							53
Travel stories							44
Travelogues							27