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Sjúrður (or Sigurd), was, around the year 1300, lawman of
Shetland Shetland, also called the Shetland Islands and formerly Zetland, is a subarctic archipelago in Scotland lying between Orkney, the Faroe Islands and Norway. It is the northernmost region of the United Kingdom. The islands lie about to the no ...
and was also possibly lawman of the Faeroe Islands.''Løgtingið 150 - Hátíðarrit''. Tórshavn 2002, Bind 2, S. 366. (In ''Føroya løgmenn fram til 1816'')
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Sjúrður was, together with
Bishop Erlendur Magnus Cathedral ( fo, Kirkjubømúrurin, Magnus-katedralurin) is a ruined cathedral in the village of Kirkjubøur on the island of Streymoy in the Faroe Islands. The ruins are the largest medieval building in the Faroe Islands. History Bis ...
, co-author of the Faeroese Seyðabrævið in 1298 - a document with land use rules for the Faeroe Islands, and the Faeroes' oldest document.


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Faroese people of Scottish descent Lawmen of the Faroe Islands Year of birth unknown Year of death unknown {{Europe-hist-stub