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Administration
	Agreements						2
	Archival lists/ lists of legal papers						44
	Boundaries						16
	Charters						512
	Chartularies						68
	Contracts / Marriage settlements						12
	Directives						5
	Documents concerning driftwood						6
	Driftwood sites/owners register						9
	Estate						18
	Freight letters / records						4
	Gift vouchers						4
	Government						1
	Hospitals						2
	Inheritance records						10
	Inheritance records						21
	Kvittunarbréf						23
	Land registers						67
	Land use						1
	Legal papers of land estate						31
	Legal papers of land estate						69
	Official letter/ documents						208
		Official books					6
	Parliament						57
	Possessions inventories						27
	Power of attorney						9
	Property boundary registers						13
	Registers of sheep marks						2
		Sheep marks					3
	Sheep range						1
	Ships						1
	Statistical reports						2
	Taxes / taxation						2
	Testimonies						118
	Tithe						21
	Visitations						8
Anthropology							1
Antiquities							5
	Homilies						5
	Kings' sagas						204
	Kings' tales						87
	Mythical-heoric tales						38
	Mythical-heroic sagas						371
	Prose romances						494
	Sagas of Icelanders						651
	Sagas of bishops						142
	Sagas of contemporary history						74
	Saint's sagas						117
		Sagas of apostles					39
		Sagas of holy people					12
		Visions					7
	Tales of Icelanders						259
Arts
	Architecture						7
	Art						22
	Drama						2
	Music						143
Astronomy							4
	Calendars						81
		Almanacs					108
		Easter tables					3
		Old folkloristic books of weather forecast from Christmas for the next twelve months.					18
	Chronology						86
	Cosmology						2
Biographies							1
Biography
	Censuses						29
		Professional registers					41
		Registers of writers / poets					23
	Diaries						256
	Epistles / Letters						545
		Letter books					62
		Letter collections					11
	Genealogy						60
		Church books					13
		Genealogies					271
	Name registers						38
	Notebooks						129
	Private documents						340
Biography sections							1
Calendar							1
Codicology
	Ink						3
	Manuscript catalogues						26
	Philology						25
	Script						9
Communications
	Postal communications						2
Crime
	Adultery						4
	Theft						3
Dedication							2
Economics							5
Education
	Catechisms						5
	Grading						1
	Schools						152
		Reading					6
			Alphabet				35
		Text-books					72
Encyclopedic wisdom							2
Essays							1
Eulogys/ Remembrance speeches							2
Folk tales
	Doctrines						10
		Forewarnings					3
		Unexplained phenomena					1
	Fairytales about magic						6
		Magic					3
		Psychic					3
		Wizards					6
	Fairytales about nature						1
		Fairytales about animals					4
		Fairytales about plants					3
		Fairytales about stones					3
		Loftsjónir/tunglsögur					1
		Ocean					5
		Tales connected to place names					4
	Ghost tales						13
		Ghosts					4
		Guardian spirits					4
		Spectres					3
		Unwanted infants placed outside					2
	Hagiography
		GOd and the Devil					4
		Holy people					2
		Superstition					5
	Humorous tales						1
		On priests and church matters					4
		Pranks/games					1
	Mythology						3
		Dwarf tales					2
		Elf tales					9
		Folklore					1
		Huldufólk tales					10
		Supernatural sea creatures					4
		Troll tales					7
	Stories of outlaws						4
	Tales of miracles						3
		Church histories					2
		On people from the time of settlement					4
		Stories from recent time					2
	Tales/ fairy-tales/ exempla						150
Folkloristics/Ethnology
	Astrology						18
	Charms						49
		Magic books					15
	Dreams						130
		Interpretations of dreams					13
		Palm reading					15
		Signs of the zodiac					13
	Folk customs						27
		Clothing					1
		Cooking					16
		Festivities					7
		Textile products					5
		Weddings					27
	Prophecies						22
	Pseudo-history						63
	Superstition						130
	Visions						23
Geography							3
	Maps						8
	Toponymy						79
Geology
	Volcanic eruptions						38
Health
	Medicine						60
		Childbirth					16
		Healing					201
History							16
	Annals						236
	Art history						4
	Court history						5
	News						17
	Politics						69
	Population history						9
Industries							1
	Agriculture						42
	Commerce						41
	Construction/smith-work with wood or iron						13
	Fishing						20
	Housekeeping						11
		Domestic manufacture					6
			Dyeing				3
			Weaving				4
	Industry						27
	Trade						66
Law							6
	Convictions						173
		Sentences					5
			Outlawry				1
			Prison				1
	Laws						361
		Canon law					133
	Lawspeakers						4
	Lawyers						15
	Members of goðorð						4
Lectures							1
Linguistics							1
	Corpora						75
	Dictionaries						36
	Letter codes						46
	Onomastics						32
		Place-names					28
	Orthography						15
	Runes						130
	Verbal definitions						86
Literary criticism							1
	Bibliographies						37
	History of literature						33
	Interpretations of poems / verses						31
	Lists of poems						30
	Metrics						60
		Metrical keys					16
	Poetics						20
	Rhetoric						78
	Stylistic						4
	Tables of contents / indexes						290
Literature							2
	Anecdotes						4
	Bibliography						90
	Books of ethics/etiquette						16
	Children's books						1
	Polemics						5
Meteorology							5
	Sea ice						2
Natural sciences							1
	Zoology						31
		Animals					6
			Birds				16
Notations							3
Notes (scholarly)							8
Novels							2
	Chapbooks						128
Philosophy							1
	Ethics						42
		Christian ethics					4
Poetry							53
	Adventure poems						5
	Ancient poems						22
	Beer poems						6
	Biography poems						7
	Confession						1
	Congratulatory poems						8
	Conjuration poems						3
	Cradle poems						2
	Dance poems						7
	Dance poems						3
	Derogatory poems						1
	Dream poems						4
	Eddic poems						93
		Eddic interpretations					2
	Elegies/ commemorative poems						109
	Epic poetry in fornyrðislag with fairy-tale motifs						9
	Epistolary poems / Letter poems						76
	Epitaphs / Tomb inscriptions						30
	Epithalamia/ Wedding poems						30
	Faith poems						32
	Fatherland poems						2
	Folk poems						11
	Folk songs						7
		Notes (music)					120
	Heroic poems						11
	Heroic poems						3
	Humor poems						18
	Hymns						649
		Alphabet hymns					8
		Baptism hymns					1
		Bible hymns					11
		Christmas hymns					18
		Commandment hymns					4
		Conformation hymns					1
		Consolation hymns					9
		Consolation poems					6
		Death hymns					20
		Easter hymns					8
		Evening hymns					38
		Exhortation hymns					11
		Hymns on the Nativity					6
		Morning hymns					32
		New year hymns					27
		Passion hymns					31
		Penitential hymns					15
		Season hymns					10
		Travel hymns					10
		Week hymns					46
	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						12
	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						7
	Polemic poems						13
	Polemics						1
	Raven poems						1
	Rhymes						48
	Rímur/metrical romances						1529
		Bible rímur					1
	Saga poem						2
	Sailing poem						7
	Saints poems						99
	Scaldic poems						43
	Stanzas						297
	Tobacco poems						2
	Vision poems						3
	Weather poems						5
	Wisdom poems						2
Prolegomena / Prefaces							5
Proverbs							1
Religion
	Religions						6
		Catholicism					3
			Abbesses				2
			Abbots				5
				Saints			3
			Cloisters				7
			Monks				1
			Popes				4
		Christianity					24
			Bishops				122
			Church history				28
			Priest				114
			Protestantism / Lutheranism				1
		Theology					429
			Books on Christian religion/ meditations/ spiritual devotion				58
				Bible			60
					Apocrypha		11
					Bible commentary		12
					Bible stories		4
				Books of prayers			8
				Catechism			4
				Collections of sermons for loud reading at home			9
				Liturgical books			2
				Meditations			7
				Prayers			245
					Miracles		2
					Weekly prayers		20
						Evening prayers	12
						Morning prayers	6
			Churches				69
			Heathendom				4
				Greek mythology			7
				Norse mythology			62
				Roman mythology			1
			Liturgics				15
				Liturgic songs			2
				Masses			42
					Missals		24
Royal genealogies							6
Sermons							4
Speeches							1
Sports
	Games						10
		Chess					3
Translations							6