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The Role of Customary Law in the Legislative Work of King Magnús lagabætir Hákonarson (1263–1280)

Unintentional Harm in Norway and Iceland in the Thirteenth Century

Julián Valle
Scandinavian Studies, July 2025, 97 (3) 1-26; DOI: https://doi.org/10.3368/sca.97.3.1
Julián Valle
Julián Valle completed his PhD at the Linguistic, Literary and Aesthetics Department of the University of Bergen. His research deals with the reception and adaptation of the latter laws of Iceland during the thirteenth and fourteenth centuries.
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