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as "NKS 56 d 8vo"). After Gísli Þorláksson's death in 1684, Ragnheiður commissioned a large portrait of Gísli and herself, alongside his first two wives, Gróa Þorleifsdóttir (d. 1660) and Ingibjörg
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banknote and on the reverse she is shown instructing young women in embroidery. Introduced in 1986, it was the first
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