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- ↑ "Nils Elias Børresen" (in Norwegian). Norwegian Social Science Data Services (NSD). Retrieved 6 April 2010.
- ↑ Ringard, Morten (1942). Flekkefjords historie (in Norwegian). Flekkefjord: Flekkefjord Municipality. p. 134.
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