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Administration
	Archival lists/ lists of legal papers						44
	Boundaries						14
	Chartularies						68
	Contracts / Marriage settlements						11
	Diplomas						509
	Directives						4
	Documents concerning driftwood						4
	Driftwood sites/owners register						9
	Estate						18
	Freight letters / records						4
	Gift vouchers						4
	Government						1
	Inheritance records						10
	Inheritance records						19
	Kvittunarbréf						21
	Land registers						67
	Legal papers of land estate						29
	Legal papers of land estate						69
	Official letter/ documents						207
		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
	Taxes / taxation						1
	Testimonies						117
	Tithe						15
	Visitations						8
Antiquities							1
	Homilies						5
	Kings' sagas						180
	Kings' tales						80
	Mythical-heoric tales						37
	Mythical-heroic sagas						366
	Prose romances						489
	Sagas of Icelanders						647
	Sagas of bishops						140
	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
	Architecture						7
	Art						22
	Drama						2
	Music						141
Astronomy							3
	Calendars						73
		Almanacs					82
		Easter tables					3
		Old folkloristic books of weather forecast from Christmas for the next twelve months.					15
	Chronology						82
	Cosmology						2
Autobiographies							2
Biographies							3
Biography
	Censuses						28
		Professional registers					36
		Registers of writers / poets					23
	Diaries						254
	Epistles / Letters						532
		Letter books					60
		Letter collections					11
	Genealogy						59
		Genealogies					262
		Kirkjubækur					13
	Name registers						38
	Notebooks						60
	Private documents						273
Biography sections							3
Codicology
	Ink						3
	Manuscript catalogues						24
	Philology						23
	Script						8
Communications							1
	Postal communications						2
Crime
	Adultery						3
	Theft						3
Economics							2
Education
	Catechisms						5
	Grading						1
	Schools						134
		Reading					6
			Alphabet				33
		Text-books					71
Essays							7
Eulogys/ Remembrance speeches							4
Exempla							3
Folk tales							7
	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					4
	Náttúrusögur						1
		Dýrasögur					4
		Grasasögur					3
		Loftsjónir/tunglsögur					1
		Sjór					5
		Steinasögur					3
		Örnefnasögur					4
	Tales/ fairy-tales/ exempla						150
	Viðburðasögur						1
		Frá fornmönnum					4
		Kirkjusögur					2
		Sagnir frá seinni tíma					2
	Útilegumannasögur						4
Folkloristics/Ethnology							3
	Astrology						17
	Charms						44
		Magic books					15
	Dreams						124
		Interpretations of dreams					12
		Palm reading					14
		Signs of the zodiac					11
	Folk customs						27
		Clothing					1
		Cooking					14
		Festivities					7
		Textile products					5
		Weddings					23
	Prophecies						22
	Pseudo-history						63
	Superstition						122
	Visions						23
Geography							3
	Maps						7
	Toponymy						71
Geology
	Volcanos						37
Health
	Medicine						55
		Childbirth					12
		Healing					185
History							6
	Annals						230
	Art history						4
	Court history						4
	News						16
	Politics						47
	Population history						9
Humorous tales							3
Industries
	Agriculture						36
	Commerce						40
	Construction/smith-work with wood or iron						11
	Fishing						18
	Housekeeping						11
		Domestic manufacture					5
			Dyeing				2
			Weaving				4
	Industry						24
	Trade						65
Late mythical-heoric sagas							1
Law							7
	Convictions						170
		Sentences					4
			Outlawry				1
			Prison				1
	Laws						314
		Canon law					117
	Lawspeakers						4
	Lawyers						15
	Members of goðorð						4
Lectures							3
Linguistics							4
	Corpora						67
	Dictionaries						33
	Letter codes						45
	Onomastics						28
		Place-names					25
	Orthography						14
	Runes						125
	Verbal definitions						81
Literary criticism							3
	Bibliographies						36
	History of literature						32
	Interpretations of poems / verses						29
	Lists of poems						30
	Metrics						60
		Metrical keys					16
	Poetics						20
	Rhetoric						75
	Stylistic						4
	Tables of contents / indexes						273
Literature
	Anecdotes						3
	Bibliography						90
	Books of ethics/etiquette						16
	Children's books						1
	Polemics						5
Magazines							1
Mathematics							2
Memoirs							3
Meteorology							10
	Sea ice						2
Natural sciences
	Zoology						29
		Animals					6
			Birds				16
Notes (scholarly)							4
Novels							5
	Chapbooks						128
Obituaries							1
Philosophy							5
	Ethics						41
		Christian ethics					4
Plays							4
Poetry							75
	Adventure poems						5
	Ancient poems						20
	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						92
		Eddic interpretations					2
	Elegies/ commemorative poems						99
	Epic poetry in fornyrðislag with fairy-tale motifs						9
	Epistolary poems / Letter poems						74
	Epitaphs / Tomb inscriptions						29
	Epithalamia/ Wedding poems						26
	Faith poems						32
	Fatherland poems						2
	Folk poems						11
	Folk songs						7
		Notes (music)					117
	Heroic poems						11
	Heroic poems						2
	Humor poems						15
	Hymns						597
		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					30
		Penitential hymns					14
		Season hymns					10
		Travel hymns					10
		Week hymns					39
	Hymns / Praise poems						9
	Instructive poems						3
	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						8
	Poems about gods						10
	Poems about old age						3
	Poems on weather conditions						3
	Polemic poems						13
	Polemics						1
	Raven poems						1
	Rhymes						44
	Rímur/metrical romances						1446
		Bible rímur					1
	Saga poem						2
	Sailing poem						7
	Saints poems						98
	Scaldic poems						41
	Stanzas						296
	Tobacco poems						2
	Vision poems						3
	Weather poems						4
	Wisdom poems						2
Prolegomena / Prefaces							2
Proverbs							4
Religion
	Religions						5
		Catholicism					2
			Abbesses				2
			Abbots				3
				Saints			3
			Cloisters				5
			Monks				1
			Popes				4
		Christianity					24
			Bishops				119
			Church history				24
			Lutheranism				1
			Priest				106
		Theology					399
			Books on Christian religion/ meditations/ spiritual devotion				56
				Bible			58
					Apocrypha		11
					Bible commentary		12
					Bible stories		4
				Books of prayers			8
				Catechism			4
				Collections of sermons for loud reading at home			8
				Liturgy-books			2
				Meditations			7
				Prayers			228
					Miracles		2
					Week prayers		20
						Evening prayers	12
						Morning prayers	6
			Churches				68
			Heathendom				4
				Greek mythology			7
				Norse mythology			60
				Roman mythology			1
			Liturgics				14
				Liturgic songs			2
				Masses			39
					Missals		23
Riddles							8
Sayings							2
Sermons							5
Short-stories							3
Speeches							4
Sports
	Games						10
		Chess					3
Story sections							8
Translations							9
Travel stories							2
Travelogues							1