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- ↑ Admin, Norse in the North (8 November 2014). "Keynote Address Announcement – Professor Judith Jesch".
- ↑ Larrington, Carolyne (1993). "Review of Women in the Viking Age" (PDF). alvíssmál 1. pp. 109–10.
