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Administration							79
	Archival lists/ lists of legal papers						44
	Boundaries						7
	Chartularies						64
	Contracts / Marriage settlements						4
	Diplomas						306
	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						197
		Official books					5
	Parliament						54
	Possessions inventories						24
	Power of attorney						4
	Property boundary registers						13
	Registers of sheep marks						1
		Sheep marks					2
	Statistical reports						2
	Testimonies						53
	Tithe						7
	Visitations						8
	gift vouchers						4
Anthropology							65
Antiquities							91
	Homilies						5
	Kings' sagas						175
	Kings' tales						80
	Mythical-heoric tales						37
	Mythical-heroic sagas						359
	Prose romances						459
	Sagas of Icelanders						636
	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						257
Arts							22
	Architecture						7
	Art						22
	Drama						2
	Music						39
Associations							45
Astronomy							72
	Calendars						52
		Almanacs					74
		Easter tables					2
		Old folkloristic books of weather forecast from Christmas for the next twelve months.					15
	Chronology						73
	Cosmology						2
Autobiographies							20
Biographies							160
Biography							48
	Censuses						22
		Professional registers					27
		Registers of writers / poets					22
	Diaries						233
	Epistles / Letters						488
		Letter books					57
		Letter collections					11
	Genealogy						57
		Genealogies					221
		Kirkjubækur					13
	Name registers						34
	Notebooks						58
	Private documents						255
Biography sections							211
Biology							6
Botany							48
Calendar							30
Chemistry							3
Codicology							16
	Ink						3
	Manuscript catalogues						24
	Philology						23
	Script						6
Communications							6
	Postal communications						2
Crime							6
	Adultery						1
	Theft						3
Dedication							4
Economics							70
Education							8
	Catechisms						5
	Grading						1
	Schools						113
		Reading					6
			Alphabet				31
		Text-books					65
Education							8
Encyclopedic wisdom							77
Essays							178
Eulogys/ Remembrance speeches							50
Exempla							43
Folk tales							102
	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						7
		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							61
	Astrology						16
	Charms						36
		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					18
	Prophecies						19
	Pseudo-history						61
	Superstition						114
	Visions						23
Geography							149
	Maps						7
	Toponymy						67
Geology							19
	Volcanos						36
Health							7
	Medicine						43
		Childbirth					12
		Healing					171
History							447
	Annals						210
	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						59
Late mythical-heoric sagas							146
Late romances							114
Late sagas of Icelanders							71
Law							560
	Convictions						120
		Sentences					4
			Outlawry				1
			Prison				1
	Laws						283
		Canon law					110
	Lawspeakers						4
	Lawyers						15
	Members of goðorð						4
Lectures							39
Linguistics							185
	Corpora						52
	Dictionaries						24
	Letter codes						44
	Onomastics						24
		Place-names					24
	Orthography						10
	Runes						116
	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						69
	Stylistic						4
	Tables of contents / indexes						251
Literature							96
	Anecdotes						3
	Bibliography						83
	Books of ethics/etiquette						11
	Children's books						1
	Polemics						5
Magazines							58
Mathematics							49
Memoirs							16
Meteorology							81
	Sea ice						2
Mineralogy							29
Natural sciences							156
	Zoology						25
		Animals					6
			Birds				16
Newspapers							10
Notations							3
Notes (scholarly)							5
Novels							121
	Chapbooks						124
Obituaries							14
Philosophy							79
	Ethics						36
		Christian ethics					4
Photographs							8
Physics							5
Plays							89
Poetry							1572
	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						3
	Eddic poems						90
		Eddic interpretations					2
	Elegies/ commemorative poems						77
	Epic poetry in fornyrðislag with fairy-tale motifs						9
	Epistolary poems / Letter poems						69
	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						485
		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						20
	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						43
	Rímur/metrical romances						1244
		Bible rímur					1
	Saga poem						2
	Sailing poem						7
	Saints poems						83
	Scaldic poems						41
	Stanzas						287
	Tobacco poems						2
	Vision poems						3
	Weather poems						4
	Wisdom poems						2
Prolegomena / Prefaces							80
Proverbs							41
Psychology							1
Religion							25
	Religions						5
		Catholicism					2
			Abbesses				2
			Abbots				3
				Saints			3
			Cloisters				5
			Monks				1
			Popes				4
		Christianity					24
			Bishops				116
			Church history				22
			Lutheranism				1
			Priest				80
		Theology					360
			Books on Christian religion/ meditations/ spiritual devotion				51
				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			198
					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							29
Sayings							17
Sermons							97
Settlement							26
Short-stories							59
Speeches							55
Sports							6
	Games						10
		Chess					2
Story sections							72
Tales of wisdom							22
Translations							52
Travel stories							42
Travelogues							24