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Administration							10
	Archival lists/ lists of legal papers						29
	Boundaries						5
	Chartularies						54
	Contracts / Marriage settlements						4
	Diplomas						304
	Directives						3
	Documents concerning driftwood						2
	Driftwood sites/owners register						8
	Estate						14
	Freight letters / records						4
	Government						1
	Inheritance records						2
	Inheritance records						16
	Kvittunarbréf						2
	Land registers						63
	Legal papers of land estate						24
	Legal papers of land estate						43
	Official letter/ documents						132
		Official books					1
	Parliament						40
	Possessions inventories						24
	Power of attorney						4
	Property boundary registers						12
	Registers of sheep marks						1
		Sheep marks					2
	Statistical reports						2
	Testimonies						50
	Tithe						1
	Visitations						5
	gift vouchers						4
Anthropology							1
Antiquities
	Homilies						5
	Kings' sagas						169
	Kings' tales						78
	Mythical-heoric tales						37
	Mythical-heroic sagas						349
	Prose romances						452
	Sagas of Icelanders						634
	Sagas of bishops						132
	Sagas of contemporary history						74
	Saint's sagas						114
		Sagas of apostles					32
		Sagas of holy people					12
		Visions					6
	Tales of Icelanders						254
Arts							2
	Architecture						7
	Art						22
	Drama						2
	Music						38
Astronomy
	Calendars						49
		Almanacs					70
		Easter tables					2
		Old folkloristic books of weather forecast from Christmas for the next twelve months.					13
	Chronology						67
	Cosmology						2
Autobiographies							1
Biographies							8
Biography
	Censuses						14
		Professional registers					21
		Registers of writers / poets					22
	Diaries						220
	Epistles / Letters						475
		Letter books					51
		Letter collections					11
	Genealogy						56
		Genealogies					216
		Kirkjubækur					1
	Name registers						32
	Notebooks						57
	Private documents						250
Biography sections							1
Botany							1
Codicology							2
	Ink						3
	Manuscript catalogues						24
	Philology						22
	Script						5
Communications							1
	Postal communications						2
Crime
	Adultery						1
	Theft						3
Economics							3
Education
	Catechisms						5
	Grading						1
	Schools						110
		Reading					6
			Alphabet				31
		Text-books					65
Encyclopedic wisdom							1
Essays							25
Eulogys/ Remembrance speeches							1
Exempla							2
Folk tales							1
	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						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						146
	Viðburðasögur						1
		Frá fornmönnum					4
		Sagnir frá seinni tíma					2
	Útilegumannasögur						3
Folkloristics/Ethnology
	Astrology						14
	Charms						34
		Magic books					15
	Dreams						114
		Interpretations of dreams					11
		Palm reading					14
		Signs of the zodiac					7
	Folk customs						26
		Clothing					1
		Cooking					13
		Festivities					7
		Textile products					5
		Weddings					15
	Prophecies						19
	Pseudo-history						61
	Superstition						112
	Visions						23
Geography							7
	Maps						7
	Toponymy						64
Geology
	Volcanos						36
Health							1
	Medicine						43
		Childbirth					12
		Healing					166
History							25
	Annals						197
	Art history						4
	Court history						4
	News						9
	Politics						46
	Population history						8
Industries							2
	Agriculture						33
	Commerce						34
	Construction/smith-work with wood or iron						10
	Fishing						18
	Housekeeping						11
		Domestic manufacture					5
			Dyeing				1
			Weaving				4
	Industry						23
	Trade						58
Late mythical-heoric sagas							2
Late romances							2
Late sagas of Icelanders							1
Law							58
	Convictions						90
		Sentences					4
			Outlawry				1
			Prison				1
	Laws						278
		Canon law					94
	Lawspeakers						4
	Lawyers						13
	Members of goðorð						4
Linguistics							3
	Corpora						38
	Dictionaries						24
	Letter codes						44
	Onomastics						18
		Place-names					24
	Orthography						10
	Runes						114
	Verbal definitions						76
Literary criticism							1
	Bibliographies						33
	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						236
Literature							6
	Anecdotes						3
	Bibliography						77
	Books of ethics/etiquette						11
	Children's books						1
	Polemics						5
Magazines							2
Mathematics							2
Meteorology							2
	Sea ice						2
Natural sciences							5
	Zoology						24
		Animals					5
			Birds				16
Newspapers							3
Novels							6
	Chapbooks						120
Philosophy							1
	Ethics						35
		Christian ethics					4
Plays							1
Poetry							40
	Adventure poems						5
	Ancient poems						18
	Beer poems						6
	Biography poems						7
	Confession						1
	Congratulatory poems						6
	Conjuration poems						2
	Cradle poems						1
	Dance poems						6
	Dance poems						3
	Dream poems						3
	Eddic poems						89
		Eddic interpretations					2
	Elegies/ commemorative poems						75
	Epic poetry in fornyrðislag with fairy-tale motifs						9
	Epistolary poems / Letter poems						65
	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						455
		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						19
	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						42
	Rímur/metrical romances						1218
		Bible rímur					1
	Saga poem						2
	Sailing poem						7
	Saints poems						81
	Scaldic poems						41
	Stanzas						286
	Tobacco poems						2
	Vision poems						3
	Weather poems						4
	Wisdom poems						2
Prolegomena / Prefaces							5
Proverbs							1
Religion							1
	Religions						5
		Catholicism					1
			Abbesses				1
			Abbots				2
				Saints			3
			Cloisters				4
			Monks				1
			Popes				4
		Christianity					22
			Bishops				113
			Church history				21
			Lutheranism				1
			Priest				69
		Theology					318
			Books on Christian religion/ meditations/ spiritual devotion				45
				Bible			46
					Apocrypha		11
					Bible commentary		11
					Bible stories		3
				Books of prayers			8
				Catechism			3
				Collections of sermons for loud reading at home			8
				Liturgy-books			2
				Meditations			1
				Prayers			178
					Miracles		2
					Week prayers		18
						Evening prayers	12
						Morning prayers	6
			Churches				51
			Heathendom				3
				Greek mythology			7
				Norse mythology			48
				Roman mythology			1
			Liturgics				14
				Liturgic songs			1
				Masses			36
					Missals		20
Riddles							3
Royal genealogies							1
Sayings							2
Sermons							3
Settlement							1
Sports
	Games						8
		Chess					2
Story sections							2
Translations							2