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Margrét Þórðardóttir and Guðríður Brandsdóttir

    This collection contains a letter from the Danish administration to Chief Prefect L. A. Thodal regarding the petitions of single women Margrét Þórðardóttir and Guðríður Brandsdóttir, who appealed the decision that exiled them from the Westfjords of Iceland for each having given birth to four children outside wedlock.

    Original source name : Margrét Þórðardóttir og Guðríður Brandsdóttir
    English translation : Margrét Þórðardóttir and Guðríður Brandsdóttir
    Creator : Administration
    Document- type 1 : correspondence
    Reference number : ÞÍ. Hið danska kansellí 1928 KA/28-61
    Language(s) : Danish
    Geographical coverage : Iceland
    Time range : 18thc.
    Year(s) : 1779–1780
    Theme 1 : exile
    Archive name : Þjóðskjalasafnið
    Archive name (English) : National Archives of Iceland
    Archive address : Laugavegi 162, 105 Reykjavík
    City : Reykjavík
    Country : Iceland
    Official website and institutional resources : https://skjalasafn.is/
    Finding aid(s) : https://skjalasafn.is/skjalaskra
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