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- ↑ Bremen, Adam of (13 August 2013). History of the Archbishops of Hamburg-Bremen. Columbia University Press. p. 108. ISBN 978-0-231-50085-2.
- ↑ Olrik, Hans (1892). Den danske biskop Tymme: (Thietmar) af Hildesheim (in Danish).
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