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https://www.medievalists.net/wp-content/uploads/2011/02/Egil_Skallagrimsson_17c_manuscript.jpg305421The discovery of the skeletal remains of the person described in this chapter is one of many scientific results of the Mosfell Archaeological Project, an ongoing international research effort we began in 1995.