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Administration							79
	Archival lists/ lists of legal papers						44
	Boundaries						14
	Chartularies						68
	Contracts / Marriage settlements						11
	Diplomas						510
	Directives						5
	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						16
	Visitations						8
Anthropology							70
Antiquities							90
	Homilies						5
	Kings' sagas						180
	Kings' tales						80
	Mythical-heoric tales						37
	Mythical-heroic sagas						367
	Prose romances						492
	Sagas of Icelanders						649
	Sagas of bishops						141
	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							22
	Architecture						7
	Art						22
	Drama						2
	Music						143
Associations							52
Astronomy							80
	Calendars						73
		Almanacs					85
		Easter tables					3
		Old folkloristic books of weather forecast from Christmas for the next twelve months.					15
	Chronology						82
	Cosmology						2
Autobiographies							25
Biographies							195
Biography							50
	Censuses						28
		Professional registers					36
		Registers of writers / poets					23
	Diaries						253
	Epistles / Letters						536
		Letter books					61
		Letter collections					11
	Genealogy						59
		Genealogies					262
		Kirkjubækur					13
	Name registers						38
	Notebooks						67
	Private documents						279
Biography sections							222
Biology							6
Botany							51
Calendar							31
Chemistry							3
Codicology							16
	Ink						3
	Manuscript catalogues						24
	Philology						23
	Script						8
Communications							7
	Postal communications						2
Crime							6
	Adultery						3
	Theft						3
Dedication							4
Economics							90
Education							8
	Catechisms						5
	Grading						1
	Schools						137
		Reading					6
			Alphabet				33
		Text-books					72
Education							8
Encyclopedic wisdom							93
Essays							212
Eulogys/ Remembrance speeches							65
Exempla							44
Folk tales							110
	Galdrasögur						6
		Galdramenn					6
		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							64
	Astrology						17
	Charms						44
		Magic books					15
	Dreams						125
		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						123
	Visions						23
Geography							159
	Maps						7
	Toponymy						71
Geology							19
	Volcanos						38
Health							7
	Medicine						58
		Childbirth					12
		Healing					186
History							481
	Annals						230
	Art history						4
	Court history						4
	News						16
	Politics						67
	Population history						9
Humor							6
Humorous tales							20
Hymn sheets							13
Industries							46
	Agriculture						37
	Commerce						40
	Construction/smith-work with wood or iron						12
	Fishing						18
	Housekeeping						11
		Domestic manufacture					5
			Dyeing				2
			Weaving				4
	Industry						25
	Trade						65
Late mythical-heoric sagas							149
Late romances							117
Late sagas of Icelanders							73
Law							600
	Convictions						171
		Sentences					4
			Outlawry				1
			Prison				1
	Laws						315
		Canon law					118
	Lawspeakers						4
	Lawyers						15
	Members of goðorð						4
Lectures							52
Linguistics							231
	Corpora						68
	Dictionaries						33
	Letter codes						45
	Onomastics						31
		Place-names					26
	Orthography						14
	Runes						126
	Verbal definitions						84
Literary criticism							41
	Bibliographies						36
	History of literature						32
	Interpretations of poems / verses						30
	Lists of poems						30
	Metrics						60
		Metrical keys					16
	Poetics						20
	Rhetoric						77
	Stylistic						4
	Tables of contents / indexes						275
Literature							112
	Anecdotes						3
	Bibliography						90
	Books of ethics/etiquette						16
	Children's books						1
	Polemics						5
Magazines							59
Mathematics							59
Memoirs							17
Meteorology							92
	Sea ice						2
Mineralogy							31
Natural sciences							170
	Zoology						29
		Animals					6
			Birds				16
Newspapers							11
Notations							4
Notes (scholarly)							10
Novels							130
	Chapbooks						128
Obituaries							17
Philosophy							108
	Ethics						42
		Christian ethics					4
Photographs							8
Physics							6
Plays							103
Poetry							1952
	Adventure poems						5
	Ancient poems						21
	Beer poems						6
	Biography poems						7
	Confession						1
	Congratulatory poems						7
	Conjuration poems						3
	Cradle poems						2
	Dance poems						7
	Dance poems						3
	Dream poems						4
	Eddic poems						92
		Eddic interpretations					2
	Elegies/ commemorative poems						101
	Epic poetry in fornyrðislag with fairy-tale motifs						9
	Epistolary poems / Letter poems						75
	Epitaphs / Tomb inscriptions						29
	Epithalamia/ Wedding poems						27
	Faith poems						32
	Fatherland poems						2
	Folk poems						11
	Folk songs						7
		Notes (music)					120
	Heroic poems						11
	Heroic poems						3
	Humor poems						17
	Hymns						618
		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					38
		Exhortation hymns					11
		Hymns on the Nativity					6
		Morning hymns					32
		New year hymns					27
		Passion hymns					30
		Penitential hymns					15
		Season hymns					10
		Travel hymns					10
		Week hymns					42
	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						4
	Polemic poems						13
	Polemics						1
	Raven poems						1
	Rhymes						48
	Rímur/metrical romances						1463
		Bible rímur					1
	Saga poem						2
	Sailing poem						7
	Saints poems						99
	Scaldic poems						41
	Stanzas						296
	Tobacco poems						2
	Vision poems						3
	Weather poems						4
	Wisdom poems						2
Prolegomena / Prefaces							82
Proverbs							48
Psychology							2
Religion							28
	Religions						5
		Catholicism					2
			Abbesses				2
			Abbots				4
				Saints			3
			Cloisters				6
			Monks				1
			Popes				4
		Christianity					24
			Bishops				119
			Church history				24
			Lutheranism				1
			Priest				106
		Theology					403
			Books on Christian religion/ meditations/ spiritual devotion				57
				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			233
					Miracles		2
					Week prayers		20
						Evening prayers	12
						Morning prayers	6
			Churches				69
			Heathendom				4
				Greek mythology			7
				Norse mythology			61
				Roman mythology			1
			Liturgics				14
				Liturgic songs			2
				Masses			39
					Missals		23
Requiem/ Masses for the dead							12
Riddles							105
Royal genealogies							32
Sayings							17
Sermons							109
Settlement							28
Short-stories							69
Speeches							69
Sports							6
	Games						10
		Chess					3
Story sections							77
Tales of wisdom							22
Translations							76
Travel stories							46
Travelogues							29