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- 1 2 Nancy L. Coleman; Olav Veka (2010). A Handbook of Scandinavian Names. Madison, WI: University of Wisconsin Press. p. 6. ISBN 9780299248338.
- ↑ Stefanie von Schnurbein (Summer 2001). "Failed Seductions: Crises of Masculinity in Knut Hamsun's "Pan" and Knut Faldbakken's "Glahn"". Scandinavian Studies. 73 (2): 156. JSTOR 40920298.
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