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🔴 **Recycling and Recontextualisation in Medieval and Early Modern Icelandic Palimpsests**

_“While parchment recycling was common in Iceland both in the medieval and early modern period, it was most productive in the century following the introduction of the Icelandic Reformation when palimpsested parchment from Latin Catholic books was frequently used for religious and legal manuscripts as a cheaper and more readily available alternative to paper. ”_

Lorenz, T. (2024a) 'Endurvinnsla og endurnýting í íslenskum uppskafningum frá miðöldum og á árnýöld,' Gripla, 35. doi.org/10.33112/gripla.35.1.

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