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Saxo Grammaticus’s Account of the Viking Age Site on the Danish Island of Hjarnø in Gesta Danorum

Erin Sebo and Matthew Firth
Scandinavian Studies, June 2023, 95 (2) 166-182; DOI: https://doi.org/10.3368/sca.95.2.0166
Erin Sebo
Flinders University
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