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Guðbrandur Vigfússon
Icelandic scholar / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
This is an Icelandic name. The last name is patronymic, not a family name; this person is referred to by the given name Guðbrandur.
Guðbrandur Vigfússon, known in English as Gudbrand Vigfusson, (13 March 1827 – 31 January 1889[1]) was one of the foremost Scandinavian scholars of the 19th century.
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