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Home Marine Mammals Movies Whales, dolphins and porpoises in the economy and culture of peasant fishermen in Norway, Orkney, Shetland, Faeroe Islands and Iceland, ca 900 -1900 AD, and Norse Greenland, ca 1000-1500 AD
Whales, dolphins and porpoises in the economy and culture of peasant fishermen in Norway, Orkney, Shetland, Faeroe Islands and Iceland, ca 900 -1900 AD, and Norse Greenland, ca 1000-1500 AD
Lindquist, Ole

"Whales, dolphins and porpoises in the economy and culture of peasant fishermen in Norway, Orkney, Shetland, Faeroe Islands and Iceland, ca. 900-1900 AD, and Norse Greenland, ca 1000-1500 AD".
Volume 1: Thesis;
Volume 2: Appendix, Parts 1-2.
Unpublished doctoral dissertation. Faculty of Arts, University of St Andrews, Scotland. November 1994.

Lykilorð:

Norðvestur Evrópu - saga; 900-1900; Norðaustur Atlanshaf - saga; Vestnorrænu löndin - saga; Strandmenning; Réttarreglur meðfram ströndum og á grunnsævi; Miðaldalög um hvali og hvalveiðar; Hvalreki; Strandveiðar á hval; Hvalveiðiaðferðir; Hvalrekstur; Hvalgildrur; Hvalvíkur og hvalvogar í Noregi; Spjótveiðar á hval; Skutulveiðar á hval; Baskneskar hvalveiðar við Ísland; Aðgerðir stjórnvalda til eflingar hvalveiðar á Íslandi, 1750-1830; Hvalmat og hvalskipti; Frumstæð lýsisbræðsla; Lýsismál; Náttúrufræði hvala, höfrunga og hnísna; Forn hvalafræði; Konungsskuggsjá; Um Íslands aðskiljanlegar náttúrur eftir Jón Guðmundsson lærða; Fiskifræði Íslands eftir Jón Ólafsson úr Grunnavík; Íslensk náttúrufræði eftir Snorra Björnsson; Beretning om hvalfangsten i Sartors skibrede, Vestur-Noregi, eftir Andreas Christie.

Keywords:

Northwestern Europe - history; 900-1900; Northeast Atlantic - history; West Nordic countries - history; Coastal culture; Inshore legal régimes; Mediaeval laws on cetaceans and whaling; Whale comings; Coastal whaling; Whaling techniques; Whale drives; Whale trapping; Whale creeks (hvalvík) and whaling voes (hvalvágr) in Norway; Whale spearing; Hand harpoon whaling; Basque whaling in Iceland; Danish government whaling initiatives in Iceland, 1750-1830; Whale appraisements and division; Primitive tryworks; Whale oil measures; Natural history of whale, dolphin and porpoise species; Old whale lore; King's mirror; Natural history of Iceland by Jón Guðmundsson lærði; Icelandic fish lore by Jón Ólafsson úr Grunnavík; Icelandic natural history by Snorra Björnsson; Account of the whaling in Sotra district, West Norway, by Andreas Christie.

The contents of the dissertation is shown below in full in order to facilitate navigating around the work. Each major chapter heading is linked to the correponding pdf files. It may be practical to turn some figures by using the Adobe Reader rotation function, like one would also do with the hard copy.

 

Volume 1: Thesis (title page, pages i-xii, 1-496)
Declarations i
Abstract ii
Preface iii
Table of contents vii
1 Introduction 1
2 Northwest European (Norse) mediaeval and early modern coastal whaling: Key concepts; previous and present research and approach 5
2.1 Human ecology; maritime adaptations; peasant fishermen 5
2.2 European and Norse whaling history 8
2.3 Concepts and definitions: 'Activity', 'tradition', 'history', 'whaling tradition', 'whaling culture'; time frame of thesis 15
2.4 Introductory and standard literature 17
2.5 Time frame; approach to peasant fisherman whaling, and methodology 18
3 Cetaceans in the Northeast Atlantic Ocean; marine mammal products 27
3.1 Cetaceans in the Northeast Atlantic Ocean 27
3.3 Marine mammal products 29
4 Littoral and inshore legal régimes, whales and whaling 34
4.1 Synopsis 34
4.2 Norse littoral and inshore legal régimes relating to whales and whaling: The framework 34
4.3 Allodial, Roman and feudal law; littoral and inshore régimes 40
4.4 Anglo-Saxon, Norman, English and Scottish littoral and inshore régimes; royal fish 45
4.5 Norse farm system; commons, inshore and littoral régime in Norway 54
4.6 Shetlandic farm system; Udal littoral régime of Orkney and Shetland; whale divisions 62
4.7 Foreshore and whales in Danish law . 73
4.8 Allodial inshore régime in Sweden 75
4.9 Norse farm appurtenences 75
4.9.1 Pertinencies (hlunnendi), in general; servitude pertinences (ítök) 75
4.9.2 Fishing/hunting, driftage; alienation of pertinences 81
4.9.3 'Driftage'/'coming' (reki): wreck proper, drift wood, fish driftage, 'whale coming'/'whale driftage' 85
4.10 Faeroese laws, regulations and littoral régime 89
4.11 Icelandic laws, regulations and littoral régime 92
4.12 Norse Greenlandic law and whaling regulations 96
4.13 Comparison of Norwegian and Icelandic littoral and inshore régimes; primal Norse littoral and inshore régime 97
5 Cetology: Norse views, knowledge and perceptions of cetaceans 102
5.1 Synopsis 102
5.2 Cetology, in general 102
5.3 Prehistoric to early mediaeval Norwegian cetologgy 104
5.3.1 Etymology of hvalr, hval, Wal, quhail(l), whale 104
5.3.2 Prehistoric Norwegian rock art 105
5.3.3 Animal style, World Serpent and whales 108
5.4 Greek-Roman, mediaeval and modern cetology; Physiologus/bestiaries 115
5.5 Early 17th century Basque-English cetology 117
5.6 Norse mediaeval nomenclature, classification and taxonomy of cetaceans and pinnipeds: Previous research; present approach; 122
5.7 Literary sources relevant to Norse cetology 138
5.7.1 Old English Orosius (late 9th century AD) 138
5.7.2 Historia Norwegiæ (end 12th century AD) 138
5.7.3 Hvalaþulur (13th century AD) 140
5.7.4 Konungsskuggsjá (mid 13th century AD) 140
5.7.5 Scholars, 14th-18th century 143
5.7.5.1 Oddur Einarsson (1588/89); Gísli Oddsson (1638) 143
5.7.5.2 Jón Guðmundsson lærði (1639-1644) 145
5.7.5.3 Peder Hansen Resen (ca 1688); Thormod Torfæus (1706-1719) 147
5.7.5.4 Jón Ólafsson frá Grunnavík (1737) 149
5.7.5.5 Snorri Björnsson (1792) 153
6 Identification of cetaceans and other marine beings in Norse sources 155
6.1 Synopsis 155
6.2 Identification of old Norse marine beings, mainly cetaceans 155
K1 Hnýðingr 156
K2 Hnísa 160
K3 Leiptr 161
K4 Vögnhvalr 164
K5 Andhvalr/K6 svínhvalr 169
K7 Hrafnhvalr 176
K8 Hvítingr 178
K9 Skjaldhvalr 179
K10 Geirhvalr 181
K11 Barðhvalr/K12 búrhvalr 183
K13 Fiskreki 188
K14 Sléttibaka 199
K15 Hafurkitti 202
K16 Hrosshvalr/K17 rauðkembingr 205
K18 Náhvalr 214
K19 Skeljungr 215
K20 Norðhvalr 216
K21 Reyðr 217
K22 Hafgufa 219
K33 Rostungr 220
North Atlantic gray whale 221
6.3 Concluding remarks 227
7 Mediaeval to early modern Norse whale measures and appraisements 229
7.1 Synopsis 229
7.2 Norse mediaeval to early modern measures of marine mammal specimens 231
7.3 Standard whale measures in old Norwegian and Icelandic legal sources 238
7.3.1 Standard measures of cetaceans in old Norwegian legal sources 238
7.3.2 Standard measures of cetaceans in old Icelandic legal sources 239
7.3.3 Ancient Norse legal limits for whale appropriation 241
7.4 Faeroese whale appraisement 243
7.4.1 Faeroese appraisement of dolphins, pilot whales and bottlenose whales 243
7.4.2 Fixed points in the Faeroese whale appraisement 248
7.5 Norse whale appraisement scales 252
7.5.1 A Norse 'whale ell' 252
7.5.2 Whale division methods 261
7.5.3 Faeroese whale appraisement scales 264
7.5.4 Old Norse whale appraisement scale 266
7.5.5 Origin of the whale appraisement *hvalsalin and skinn 274
7.6 What is the origin of the Faeroese gyllin? 277
7.7 Conclusion 295
8 Ritual aspects in Norse whaling 297
8.1 Ritual aspects in traditional whaling, in general 297
8.2 Offerings to the old Norse god Njörðr for whales 298
8.3 Returning of the whale's eyes 304
8.4 Whale penises eaten in Iceland: Aphrodisiac - Norse phallic cult? . 305
8.5 Conclusions 307
9 Whale coming, driving and trapping 309
9.1 Synopsis 309
9.2 Natural strandings of cetaceans 310
9.3 Drive hunting and trapping of cetaceans: Introduction, definitions and hypotheses 311
9.4 Norse whale drives and trappings (including seining) 318
9.4.1 Norse whale drives, in general 318
9.4.2 Hvalrekstr ('Whale driving/coming') 321
9.4.3 Norwegian laws and regulations pertaining to sealing, whaling, cetacean drive hunts, whaling creeks and whaling voes/garths 324
9.5 Faeroes pilot whale hunt 330
9.6 Norwegian whaling voes 333
9.6.1 Skogsvåg whaling voe, Sotra, 16th-19th centuries 333
9.6.2 Telavåg whaling voe, Sotra, 16th-19th centuries 338
9.6.3 Straumøy whaling voe, Frøya, 1435 AD 343
9.6.4 Vikna whaling voes, 1432/49 AD 344
9.6.5 Other whaling voes 346
9.7 Whale creek (hvalvík), whaling voe (hvalvágr) and whale garth (hvalgarðr) 348
9.7.1 Hvalvík, hvalvágr: present state of research 348
9.7.2 Norwegian Kvalvik and Kvalvåg farm names 352
9.7.3 Kvalvåg and Kvalvik place name evidence in Norway, Iceland and Shetland, in general 356
9.7.4 Hvalgarðr (whale garth) 364
9.7.5 'To stake off' whaling voes; 'whale garths'; weirs, stockades; lattices; Stikholm 365
9.7.6 Decline of whaling voes/garths in Norway 374
10 Whaling with piercing weapons 378
10.1 Synopsis 378
10.2 Piercing weapons and whaling techniques 379
10.2.1 Definitions: Lance, spear, harpoon and gaff 379
10.2.2 Basque (Biscayan) whaling technique and whaling 381
10.3 Norwegian and Norse whaling and sealing from prehistoric to modern times: State of research, open questions and hypotheses 384
10.4 Seal, porpoise and dolphin harpooning tradition, from Mesolithic to modern times 393
10.5 Spearing tradition of medium-sized and large cetaceans, from prehistoric, possibly Neolithic, times through the nineteenth century 399
10.5.1 Harpooning or spearing of whales in prehistoric and mediaeval
times in Norway? 399
10.5.2 Ohthere from Hálogaland 403
10.5.3 Icelandic and Norwegian mediaeval whaling by piercing weapons 404
10.5.4 Mediaeval Norse hunting of blue,bowhead and other large whales 413
10.5.5 Continuity in Icelandic whaling with piercing weapons and changes in terminology, ca 1250-1800 AD 414
10.5.6 Seventeenth to nineteenth century Norwegian and Icelandic spear whaling and 'whale sticking' 417
10.6 Harpoon whaling lines in mediaeval Norway and Iceland? 420
10.7 Early mediaeval Norse and early modern Icelandic, Norwegian and Faeroese hand harpoon whaling 426
10.7.1 Early mediaeval whaling by the Norse in Ireland and Normandy 426
10.7.2 Icelandic, Norwegian and Faeroese harpoon whaling as from the early seventeenth century 428
10.7.3 Norse harpoon whaling as from 1610; cooperating crews versus single-boat operation; origin of the harpoon whaling paradigm in Nordic whaling history 436
10.8 Faeroese bottlenose whaling; Hiberno-Irish gaffing of black right whales, mid 11th century; gaffing as a primary whaling method 441
11 Icelandic registered whaling shot marks (1634-1792), (spear) whalers; matching of registered and recovered shot marks (1634-1725) 449
12 Norse whaling involving septicaemia bacillus (arrowing and spearing) 461
12.1 Poison and 'poison whaling': Introduction and definitions 461
12.2 Kodiak type 'poison whaling' 462
12.3 Poison in the Norse area; West Norwegian 'poison whaling' 465
12.4 Whaling at Skogsvåg, West Norway, involving septicaemia bacillus 469
12.5 Pathogenesis in Icelandic spear whaling 481
12.6 Pathogenesis in Norse arrow and spear whaling: Summary and conclusions 483
13 Conclusions 490
Volume 2, Part 1: Appendix (title page, pages i-v, 497-925)
A.14 Nomenclature of scientific, historical and vernacular terms of cetaceans and pinnipeds in the Northeast Atlantic Ocean 497
(A) Introduction 497
(B) Index to current names 503
(M) Mysticetes (baleen whales) 505
(O) Odontocetes (toothed whales, including dolphins and porpoises) 536
(P) Pinnipeds 583
A.15 Legal sources: Extracts from, and draft translations (in part), and summaries of, original legal sources, in Old Norse, Dano-Norwegian, Scots, etc, concerning whaling and sealing604
A.15.1 Norway 604
A.15.1.1 Older Gulathing Law, ca 1100 AD (GTL) 604
A.15.1.2 Older City, or Mercantile, Law, late 12th century AD (ÆB) 608
A.15.1.3 Older Frostathing Law, mid 13th century AD (FTL) 609
A.15.1.4 Magnús Lagabœtir's National Code for Norway, 1274 AD (MLL) 611
A.15.1.5 Christian 4's Norwegian Lawbook, 1604 (NLB) 615
A.15.1.6 Christian 5's Norwegian Law, 1687 (NL, NLI [1779]) 618
A.15.1.7 Norwegian Whaling Act, 1863 (NWA 1863) 621
A.15.1.8 Mediaeval and modern Norwegian laws and regulations concerning cetacean drive hunts, whaling creeks and whaling voes/garths 623
A.15.2 Iceland 628
A.15.2.1 Chieftain Sæmundur Ormsson's district whale statute, ca 1245 AD (SæmOddsWS) 628
A.15.2.2 Rosmhvalanes municipal whale statute, ca 1270 AD (RsmnWS) . 632A.15.2.3Jónsbók, 1281/1283 AD (JB) 638
A.15.2.4 'Decree concerning the right to foreshore in Iceland', 4 May 1778 (Decree 1778) 641
A.15.2.5 Ordinance concerning transported whale (flutningshvalur) in Iceland, 23 June 1779 (Ordinance 1779) 643
A.15.3 Faeroe Islands 644
A.15.3.1 Seyðabrævið, 1298 AD (SB 1298) 644
A.15.3.2 Pilot Whaling Statutes 1832 and 1986 (GR 1832; GR 1986) . 647
A.16 Excursuses 650
A.16.1 List of errata, Lindquist 1993 . 650
A.16.2 Biological key data of Northeast Atlantic cetaceans 652
A.16.3 Danish Treasury memorandum and sysselmænd reports about whales and whaling in Iceland, 1778-1779 654
A.16.4 Whale names in Hvalaþulur, Skáldskaparmál (Edda), and Konungsskuggsjá 665
A.16.5 Nordic ell measures 669
A.16.6 Norse and German denominations of value (currencies) and reckoning 672
A.16.7 Faeroese pilot whaling: Sources in draft translation 677
A.16.8 Hvalvík and Hvalvágr place names: Extracts and summaries of definitions and explanations by Fritzner; Storm and Hertzberg;
Rygh; Robberstad; Kjær; Collett; Sørensen; Nordby; Robberstad; Kolsrud; Johnsen; Sandnes and Stemshaug; Frøiland; and Wexelsen (in approximate chronological order) 682
A.16.9 Old Norse fences, barriers, weirs, enclosures, traps, etc 687
A.16.10 Sources relevant to 14th-19th spear and harpoon whaling in Norway, Iceland and the Faeroe Islands: Translated extracts and brief comments 691
A.16.11 Björn Einarsson's travel description and Ólafur ísfirðingur's spear whaling, 1385 AD 720
A.16.12 Ropes and lines in the Norse area during the Middle Ages 722
A.16.13 North Norwegian whaling, 17th-19th century, as described by H.D. Bratrein in Karlsøy og Helgøy bygdebok (1989-1992): Presentation and discussion 726
A.16.14 Toggle and grommet harpoons in Norway and Iceland 731
A.16.15 Concepts of djúp ('the deep'), marreinsbakki (subtidal slope) and garðr ('garth') in old Norse legal sources 736
A.16.16 Faeroese driving and gaffing of northern bottlenose whales: 739
(A) Faeroese driving and gaffing of northern bottlenose whales (proper evidence) 739
(B) Accounts of the Suðuroy bottlenose whaling containing misconceptions (in logical order) 741
A.16.17 West European whaling weapons in 16th century printed graphics, as described by K. Barthelmess and J. Münzig in Monstum horrendum (1991): Presentation and discussion 744
A.16.18 Descriptions of the disease-causing whaling at Skogsvåg, Sotra, West Norway 748
A.17 Calendars of diplomas, documents, annals, place names, etc, concerning whaling and sealing 754
A.17.1 Calendars of unpublished source material: Orkney and Shetland: 754
(A) Calendar and some tentative transcriptions of unpublished documents concerning cetaceans
heir division in Orkney . 754
(B) Calendar and some tentative transcriptions of unpublished documents concerning cetaceans and their division in Shetland 764
A.17.2 Extracts from, and draft translations of, Icelandic annals concerning cetaceans
and pinnipeds, ca 1200-1800 AD . 772
A.17.3 Stated size (length) of Norse cetaceans
and pinnipeds, 900-1900 AD (including identification keys to species in Konungsskuggsjá) 856
A.17.4 Norwegian Hvalvágr and Hvalvík farm names,
14th-18th century AD, according to Norske gaardnavne 883
A.17.5 Hvalvágr and Hvalvík place names in Nordland, Troms and Finnmark counties, Norway, according to J. Qvigstad (1922) 888
A.17.6 Norwegian Hvalvágr and Hvalvík place names according to the current topographic main map series M711 (scale 1:50,000) 889
A.17.7 Slate spear heads recovered off the Norwegian coast 894
A.17.8 Whaling and sealing weapons and related terms in Icelandic diplomas and Althing records, 1250-1800 AD 895
A.17.9 Whaling ('ironing'), whales and related driftage in (Northwest) Iceland according to the land register by Árni Magnússon
and Páll Vídalín (JÁMPV), 1710 . 900
A.17.10 Owner marks on Icelandic whaling shots, 17th-18th century AD 908
Volume 2, Part 2: Appendix (title page, pages i-v, pages 926-1273)
A.18 Literary and folkloristic sources: Extracts and translations concerning whaling (arranged alphabetically by source) 926
Ælfric's Colloquy, ca 1005 AD 928
Al-'Udhr, ca 1058 AD/al-Qazwn, before 1283 AD 930
Ásgeirsson 1946 (and 1929) 931
Ívar Bárðarson, ca 1350 AD 940
Barsnes 1932 941
Barsnes 1935 944
Bartholin 1657 946
Blom 1825, 1830 947
Boie 1822 950
Brooke 1823, 1827 952
Brunchorst 1889 955
Colban 1814 956
Dass 1690s (1989) 957
Edge 1611 and 1622 (Purchas 1906b; Edge 1906) 958
Eiríksson 1768 962
Eiríksson 1781 966
Fellman 1820s 969
Friis, P. Claussøn 1592 (1881e) 971
Friis, P. Claussøn 1599 (1881a) 972
Greve 1840 973
J. Guðmundsson lærði (1640-1644) 975
Helland 1899; Thomassen (late 19th century) 976
Helland 1921 977
Historia Norwegiæ (end 12th century) 979
Høst 1875 980
Holmboe 1873 982
Horrebow 1752 983
Jakobsen 1984-1985 984
Knag 1694 (1938) and Anon [1694] (1938a) 985
Kolsrud 1955 987
Konungsskuggsjá, 1240-1263 AD 988
Kraft 1830 1002
Lilienskiold 1698 1003
Lilljeborg 1866 (1862) 1008
Magnússon 1786 1009
Melchior 1834 1010
Nansen 1911 1011
Negri 1664 (1887) 1012
Oddsson 1960 1013
Ohthere from Hálogaland, late 9th century AD 1017
E. Olafsen [Ólafsson] 1772 1018
Olavius 1780 1023
Pontoppidan 1753 (1977) 1024
Ryggi, Mikkjal (Dánjalsson) á Ryggi 1927 1025
Sørensen et al 1912; Rode 1826-1833 1026
Strøm 1762 1766 1029
Tarnovius 1669 (1950) 1031
Thorsteinsson 1976 1032
A.19 Jón Ólafsson frá Grunnavík, Ichthyographia Islandica, 1737: Transcribed extracts (Danish and Icelandic) 1033
(A) Jón Ólafsson's translation into Danish of Ichthyographia Islandica, 1737 (KBK, ms Rostgaard 111, 2): Tentative transcription of extracts1033
(B) Early 19th century copy of Jón Ólafsson's Ichthyographia Islandica in Icelandic, as edited by himself, 1737-1742 (LBS JS, ms 247, 4) 1046
(Ba) Contents (in English and normalised Icelandic) 1046
(Bb) Tentative transcription 1046
A.20 Andreas Christie, 'Account of the whaling in Sotra district' (etc), West Norway, 1785/86: Transcription of the Dano-Norwegian text and translation of (rearranged) extracts 1058
(A) Introduction 1058
(B) Beretning om hvalfangsten i Sartors skibrede ('Account of the whaling in Sotra district'): Transcript of the Dano-Norwegian text 1063
(C) 'Account of the whaling in Sotra district': Draft translation of extracts (rearranged) 1086
(D) Reflections on arrow whaling and whale garths: Transcript of the Dano-Norwegian text 1116
(E) Reflections on arrow whaling and whale garths: Draft translation with interspersed summaries 1128
(F) On whales as fish drivers: Transcribed extracts in Dano-Norwegian from Om hvalfisket and Om fiskeriet 1138
(G) Stuwitz 1830s: Transcribed extracts in Dano-Norwegian from comments added by the copyist of UBB ms 221, P. Stuwitz, in the 1830s 1142
A.21 Remarks concerning details of the written presentation (discourse, appendices and bibliography) 1144
A.22 Definitions and glossary 1148
A.23 Acronyms and abbreviations 1164
A.24 Bibliography 1176
(A) Printed sources 1176
(B) Periodicals and serial publications . 1262
(C) Unpublished sources 1268
Figures
Figure 1: Approximate extent of various Norse law provinces in the Middle Ages and the theoretical route of a blue whale, recovered in Greenland with an identified shot, 1385 AD, 35
Figure 2: Norwegian counties (fylker), 20th century, 36
Figure 3: Icelandic counties: late mediaeval to modern sýslur, with modern subdivisions, 37
Figure 4: Sketches of the inshore legal régimes in Iceland (4a), Norway (4b), and Orkney and Shetland (4c) since mediaeval
times, - sketches, 55
Figure 5: Hypothetical premordial Norse landward and seaward property régime, 56
Figure 6: Sketches of the mediaeval to modern landward and seaward property régimes in Iceland (6a)
and Norway (6b), 57
Figure 7: Fishing panel of the so called Gosforth stone, from Gosforth, Cumbria, England (10th century AD), 112
Figure 8: Whaling-spear head, as used by Matthías Ásgeirsson á Bauluhúsum, Arnarfjörður, Northwest Iceland,
into the mid 1890s, 112
Figure 9: Original whale appraisement rod from Vágar, Faeroe Islands, 1832, 244
Figure 10: Whale appraisement scales, . 245
Figure 11: Hvalvágr type place names in Norway, according to item A.17.6 (map series M711), 360
Figure 12: Hvalvík type place names in Norway according to item A.17.6 (map series M711), 361
Figure 13: Conjectural routes, in Iceland, of whales from place of spearing to place of recovery, 1657-1725, according to item A.17.10 (F), 457
Figure 14: Example of page (f34r) in KBK ms Rostgaard 111, 2, 1034
Figure 15: Example of page (37) in LBS-JS ms 247, 4, 1047
Figure 16: Example of page (f43v) in UBB ms 56, 1059
Figure 17: Example of page (f1r) in UBB ms 221, 1060
 
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