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Administration
	Archival lists/ lists of legal papers						20
	Boundaries						2
	Chartularies						50
	Contracts/Marriage settlements						3
	Diplomas						262
	Directives						1
	Documents concerning driftwood						1
	Driftwood sites/owners register						8
	Estate						13
	Freight letters/ records						4
	Government						1
	Inheritance records						1
	Inheritance records						16
	Kvittunarbréf						1
	Land registers						43
	Legal papers of land estate						22
	Legal papers of land estate						37
	Official letter/ documents						104
		Official books					1
	Parliament						36
	Possessions inventories						22
	Property boundary registers						12
	Registers of sheep marks						1
		Sheep marks					2
	Statistical reports						2
	Testimonies						42
	Tithe						1
	Visitations						4
	gift vouchers						4
	power of attorney						3
Anthropology							3
Antiquities							10
	Homilies						5
	Kings' sagas						165
	Kings' tales						77
	Mythical-heoric tales						37
	Mythical-heroic sagas						332
	Prose romances						431
	Sagas of Icelanders						626
	Sagas of bishops						130
	Sagas of contemporary history						73
	Saint's sagas						112
		Sagas of apostles					29
		Sagas of holy people					12
		Visions					6
	Tales of Icelanders						248
Arts
	Architecture						7
	Art						20
	Drama						2
	Music						29
Astronomy
	Calendars						46
		Almanacs					63
		Easter tables					2
		Old folkloristic books of weather forecast from Christmas for the next twelve months.					13
	Chronology						65
	Cosmology						2
Autobiographies							1
Biography
	Censuses						14
		Professional registers					20
		Registers of writers / poets					22
	Diaries						207
	Epistles/ Letters						393
		Letter books					48
		Letter collections					11
	Genealogy						55
		Genealogies					210
		Kirkjubækur					1
	Name registers						31
	Notebooks						53
	Private documents						218
Biography sections							3
Botany							2
Codicology
	Ink						3
	Manuscript catalogues						19
	Philology						21
	Script						4
Communications
	Postal communications						1
Crime
	Adultery						1
	Theft						3
Education
	Catechisms						5
	Grading						1
	Schools						105
		Reading					6
			Alphabet				29
		Text-books					62
Encyclopedic wisdom							1
Essays							3
Eulogys/ Remembrance speeches							2
Folk tales							5
	Galdrasögur						4
		Galdramenn					5
		Töfrabrögð					1
		Ófreskigáfur/Skyggni					3
	Ghost tales						11
		Afturgöngur					3
		Fylgjur					4
		Uppvakningar/sendingar					4
		Útburðir					2
	Goðfræðisögur
		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					4
	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						140
	Viðburðasögur
		Frá fornmönnum					4
		Sagnir frá seinni tíma					1
	Útilegumannasögur						3
Folkloristics/Ethnology							1
	Astrology						13
	Charms						32
		Magic books					15
	Dreams						111
		Interpretations of dreams					11
		Palm reading					14
		Signs of the zodiac					6
	Folk customs						26
		Cooking					13
		Festivities					7
		Textile products					5
		Weddings					14
	Prophecies						19
	Pseudo-history						60
	Superstition						107
	Visions						23
Geography							4
	Maps						7
	Toponymy						61
Geology
	Volcanos						33
Health
	Medicine						40
		Childbirth					12
		Healing					161
History							5
	Annals						191
	Art history						4
	Court history						4
	News						9
	Politics						44
	Population history						8
Industries
	Agriculture						31
	Commerce						30
	Construction/smith-work with wood or iron						10
	Fishing						17
	Housekeeping						11
		Domestic manufacture					5
			Dyeing				1
			Weaving				4
	Industry						21
	Trade						56
Late mythical-heoric sagas							3
Late romances							6
Late sagas of Icelanders							2
Law							3
	Convictions						85
		Sentences					4
			Outlawry				1
			Prison				1
	Laws						275
		Canon law					91
	Lawspeakers						4
	Lawyers						13
	Members of goðorð						4
Linguistics							3
	Corpora						36
	Dictionaries						22
	Letter codes						43
	Onomastics						18
		Place-names					21
	Orthography						10
	Runes						108
	Verbal definitions						73
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						231
Literature							2
	Anecdotes						3
	Bibliography						69
	Books of ethics/etiquette						11
	Children's books						1
	Polemics						5
Mathematics							1
Meteorology							5
	Sea ice						2
Mineralogy							2
Natural sciences							2
	Zoology						22
		Animals					5
			Birds				16
Novels							4
	Chapbooks						112
Philosophy
	Ethics						35
		Christian ethics					4
Poetry							30
	Adventure poems						4
	Ancient poems						16
	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						61
	Epitaphs/ Tomb inscriptions						26
	Epithalamia/ Wedding poems						23
	Faith poems						31
	Fatherland poems						1
	Folk poems						11
	Folk songs						7
		Notes					20
	Heroic poems						10
	Heroic poems						1
	Humor poems						11
	Hymns						400
		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					32
		Exhortation hymns					9
		Hymns on the Nativity					3
		Morning hymns					28
		New year hymns					25
		Passion hymns					26
		Penitential hymns					9
		Season hymns					8
		Travel hymns					9
		Week hymns					26
	Hymns/ Praise poems						8
	Instructive poems						2
	Ironic poems about the state of the world						8
	Laments						5
	Love poems						2
	Medieval poems						4
	Memorial poems						18
	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
	Polemic poems						8
	Polemics						1
	Raven poems						1
	Rhymes						41
	Rímur/metrical romances						1137
		Bible rímur					1
	Saga poem						2
	Sailing poem						7
	Saints poems						80
	Scaldic poems						39
	Stanzas						278
	Tobacco poems						2
	Vision poems						3
	Weather poems						4
	Wisdom poems						2
Prolegomena/ Prefaces							1
Proverbs							1
Religion
	Religions						5
		Catholicism					1
			Abbesses				1
			Abbots				2
				Saints			3
			Cloisters				4
			Monks				1
			Popes				4
		Christianity					21
			Bishops				111
			Church history				19
			Lutheranism				1
			Priest				66
		Theology					301
			Books on Christian religion/ meditations/ spiritual devotion				43
				Bible			37
					Apocrypha		10
					Bible commentary		2
					Bible stories		2
				Books of prayers			8
				Catechism			3
				Collections of sermons for loud reading at home			8
				Liturgy-books			2
				Prayers			160
					Miracles		2
					Week prayers		15
						Evening prayers	11
						Morning prayers	6
			Churches				49
			Heathendom				3
				Greek mythology			7
				Norse mythology			47
				Roman mythology			1
			Liturgics				13
				Masses			36
					Missals		18
Riddles							3
Sayings							1
Settlement							6
Short-stories							4
Speeches							1
Sports
	Games						7
		Chess					2
Story sections							1
Translations							1