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The Horror of Vínland: Topographies and Otherness in the Vínland sagas

Pernille Hermann
Scandinavian Studies, March 2021, 93 (1) 1-22; DOI: https://doi.org/10.3368/sca.93.1.0001
Pernille Hermann
Aarhus University
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