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Administration							26
	Archival lists/ lists of legal papers						44
	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						3
	Inheritance records						16
	Kvittunarbréf						2
	Land registers						63
	Legal papers of land estate						24
	Legal papers of land estate						43
	Official letter/ documents						152
		Official books					1
	Parliament						46
	Possessions inventories						24
	Power of attorney						4
	Property boundary registers						12
	Registers of sheep marks						1
		Sheep marks					2
	Statistical reports						2
	Testimonies						51
	Tithe						4
	Visitations						5
	gift vouchers						4
Anthropology							1
Antiquities							24
	Homilies						5
	Kings' sagas						170
	Kings' tales						79
	Mythical-heoric tales						37
	Mythical-heroic sagas						359
	Prose romances						456
	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						256
Arts							2
	Architecture						7
	Art						22
	Drama						2
	Music						38
Astronomy							6
	Calendars						49
		Almanacs					70
		Easter tables					2
		Old folkloristic books of weather forecast from Christmas for the next twelve months.					13
	Chronology						68
	Cosmology						2
Autobiographies							4
Biographies							21
Biography
	Censuses						14
		Professional registers					21
		Registers of writers / poets					22
	Diaries						225
	Epistles / Letters						482
		Letter books					52
		Letter collections					11
	Genealogy						56
		Genealogies					217
		Kirkjubækur					1
	Name registers						32
	Notebooks						58
	Private documents						251
Biography sections							25
Botany							3
Calendar							7
Codicology							2
	Ink						3
	Manuscript catalogues						24
	Philology						22
	Script						5
Communications							1
	Postal communications						2
Crime
	Adultery						1
	Theft						3
Economics							6
Education
	Catechisms						5
	Grading						1
	Schools						111
		Reading					6
			Alphabet				31
		Text-books					66
Encyclopedic wisdom							10
Essays							44
Eulogys/ Remembrance speeches							4
Exempla							4
Folk tales							19
	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					2
	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							12
	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					17
	Prophecies						19
	Pseudo-history						61
	Superstition						112
	Visions						23
Geography							12
	Maps						7
	Toponymy						65
Geology							1
	Volcanos						36
Health							1
	Medicine						43
		Childbirth					12
		Healing					166
History							60
	Annals						198
	Art history						4
	Court history						4
	News						9
	Politics						46
	Population history						8
Hymn sheets							1
Industries							2
	Agriculture						35
	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							7
Late romances							6
Late sagas of Icelanders							1
Law							127
	Convictions						99
		Sentences					4
			Outlawry				1
			Prison				1
	Laws						283
		Canon law					102
	Lawspeakers						4
	Lawyers						13
	Members of goðorð						4
Lectures							1
Linguistics							13
	Corpora						38
	Dictionaries						24
	Letter codes						44
	Onomastics						24
		Place-names					24
	Orthography						10
	Runes						114
	Verbal definitions						76
Literary criticism							14
	Bibliographies						33
	History of literature						29
	Interpretations of poems / verses						28
	Lists of poems						30
	Metrics						57
		Metrical keys					13
	Poetics						20
	Rhetoric						68
	Stylistic						4
	Tables of contents / indexes						241
Literature							12
	Anecdotes						3
	Bibliography						83
	Books of ethics/etiquette						11
	Children's books						1
	Polemics						5
Magazines							4
Mathematics							3
Meteorology							7
	Sea ice						2
Mineralogy							2
Natural sciences							16
	Zoology						24
		Animals					5
			Birds				16
Newspapers							3
Novels							8
	Chapbooks						124
Philosophy							7
	Ethics						36
		Christian ethics					4
Photographs							2
Plays							2
Poetry							126
	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						77
	Epic poetry in fornyrðislag with fairy-tale motifs						9
	Epistolary poems / Letter poems						68
	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						462
		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						1235
		Bible rímur					1
	Saga poem						2
	Sailing poem						7
	Saints poems						83
	Scaldic poems						41
	Stanzas						286
	Tobacco poems						2
	Vision poems						3
	Weather poems						4
	Wisdom poems						2
Prolegomena / Prefaces							19
Proverbs							4
Religion							7
	Religions						5
		Catholicism					2
			Abbesses				1
			Abbots				2
				Saints			3
			Cloisters				4
			Monks				1
			Popes				4
		Christianity					23
			Bishops				113
			Church history				21
			Lutheranism				1
			Priest				73
		Theology					328
			Books on Christian religion/ meditations/ spiritual devotion				46
				Bible			56
					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			3
				Prayers			185
					Miracles		2
					Week prayers		18
						Evening prayers	12
						Morning prayers	6
			Churches				55
			Heathendom				3
				Greek mythology			7
				Norse mythology			49
				Roman mythology			1
			Liturgics				14
				Liturgic songs			1
				Masses			37
					Missals		20
Requiem/ Masses for the dead							1
Riddles							13
Royal genealogies							3
Sayings							5
Sermons							15
Settlement							9
Short-stories							3
Speeches							4
Sports
	Games						8
		Chess					2
Story sections							4
Tales of wisdom							1
Translations							3
Travel stories							2