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This is a woman who was born in Trondheim at the end of the 13th century. We have recreated her based on her skeleton, found under today's main library in the city.

Examinations of her skeleton show that she was more than 65 years old when she died. This was quite an advanced age at the time.

If you don’t count everyone who died as an infant, life expectancy for most people then was between 40 and 50 years old.

When she was born, at the end of the 13th century, Trondheim was a thriving city. Almost 4000 people lived here, and that was quite a big population in the Middle Ages. People from all over Europe lived here.

Much of the reason for that was that the construction of Nidaros Cathedral was nearing completion.

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