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The Working Practices of Magnús Ketilsson: An Icelandic Scribe at the End of the Seventeenth Century

Sheryl McDonald Werronen
Scandinavian Studies, June 2020, 92 (1) 39-61; DOI: https://doi.org/10.3368/sca.92.1.0039
Sheryl McDonald Werronen
University of Copenhagen
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