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Jón Guttormsson Skráveifa (died 8 July 1361) was an Icelandic man who was a governor of Iceland from 1357 to 1360 and then became a lögmaður (lawspeaker).

He had a very bad reputation in Iceland; he was noted for his cruelty and harsh money-collecting and had been outlawed from Iceland in 1348. He was killed, along with the then-governor in Iceland, Smiður Andrésson, and six others in the battle of Grund in 1361. According to legends he tried to escape through a sewer but became stuck and was beheaded after the battle.

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