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Skaldic Poetry of the Scandinavian Middle Ages

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Note to ESk Sigdr I 2II

[3] á Jákóbslandi ‘in Galicia’: A province located in the north-west of the Iberian Peninsula. One of the main cities in Galicia was Santiago de Compostela (‘S. James of Compostela’), which housed the relics of James the Great, hence the ON name for Galicia, Jákóbsland ‘James’s land’. See Note to ll. 2, 3 above.

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