Although little has been written in other languages about food in Iceland, there is an interesting literature in Icelandic. |
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Her wavy hair fell over her shoulders, and he could hear her softly speaking to them in Icelandic. |
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I note that skrimslis an Icelandic monster, chronicled in Fortean Times, possibly a sort of reptile living in lakes. |
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Linguistic relatives are English, German, Swedish, Norwegian, and Icelandic, all of which descend from the ancient Teutonic language. |
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There are two words in Old Icelandic that specifically refer to fire-drills. |
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Those Icelandic good time boys wowed us with their high-kicking quick-fire bubble-gum pop songs. |
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It will be broadcast in 21 languages, including Arabic, Mandarin, Icelandic, Russian, Serbian and Thai. |
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Her silk scarf and soft Icelandic wool sweater complement her deep caramel skin and shoulder-length brown hair. |
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I even read the Norse sagas and Icelandic literature and I love Celtic lore. |
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Four Icelandic artists create work exploring aspects of melancholia through animation, drawing, painting, sculpture and video. |
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Fortunately it appeared that it had been only a mistake and the oversensitiveness of Icelandic police. |
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A semi-circle of tow-headed children waved tiny Icelandic and Canadian flags, as a brass band played the two countries' national anthems. |
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These languages include German, Dutch, Mainland Scandinavians, Icelandic, Yiddish, Old and Early Middle English, and Old French. |
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The couple set up home in London and, in 1972, Ashkenazy took Icelandic citizenship. |
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Our last night we decided to go out and spend some big money on an authentic Icelandic meal. |
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The tripple is a four-beat gait much like the tolt seen in the Icelandic horse. |
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It is all tinkling guitars, simple percussion and lovely crystal clear vocals, delivered in a faintly Icelandic accent. |
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Furthermore, Johannesson seems to have blazed a trail for a string of other Icelandic raiders who are developing a taste for British companies. |
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The first Icelandic settlers in North America arrived in Utah in 1855 seeking religious freedom to follow Mormonism. |
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An Icelandic horse, capable of maintaining significant speed over lava fields and sheet ice, couldn't stay upright on asphalt. |
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It will be difficult enough being Berti Vogts in Reykjavik next Saturday without his Icelandic counterpart making it harder. |
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On Friday, Scotland under-21s not only beat their Icelandic counterparts but secured the services of a talented prospect. |
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Orkney's largest fishing vessel and one of the biggest in the UK fleet, Orcades Viking III, has been sold to an Icelandic company. |
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York City's part-time goalkeeping coach, Neville Southall, wants to be boss of Icelandic side Fram Reykjavik according to reports. |
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The majority of the funeral was held in Icelandic, but a few hymns, such as Amazing Grace, were performed in English. |
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In our version, the Danes will be speaking English, and Grendel will be speaking Icelandic. |
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We thought the songs were good as they were, and, you know, our other titles were in Icelandic, so people didn't understand anything anyway! |
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It's performed in English with some Icelandic, and a trapeze and diving boards. |
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For the first time the book is available in English, translated from the Icelandic by Magnus Magnusson. |
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Did I ever mention that I spent years in my early teens struggling with learning Icelandic and Norwegian? |
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Such a requirement has also presented technical difficulties for the analysis of V2 languages like Icelandic. |
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Pastries include kleinur, or Icelandic donuts, made of sour cream, buttermilk, vanilla and nutmeg. |
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As the Icelandic sweater is to Iceland, so the Cowichan sweater is to Canada. |
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It is half-way between a kind of intoned opera and the revenge, betrayal and interaction between men and gods of an Old Icelandic saga. |
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The sounds of Icelandic volcanoes provide a haunting backdrop to the scene. |
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The Karluk polar expedition in 1913 was sponsored by the Canadian government and led by an Icelandic explorer called Stefansson. |
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Since then Icelandic group Baugur has snapped up Big Food Group, the owner of the ironically-named Iceland supermarket chain. |
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Miller, Burchill and Icelandic teenager Thorarinsson are all, for now, short-term solutions, contracted until the end of the season. |
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The Icelandic language resembles Russian just enough to emit a similar impression. |
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The northern folk, who stayed where they were, gradually changed their language into Icelandic, Faeroese, Norwegian, Swedish, and Danish. |
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Indeed, one is tempted to suggest that they do not even rank among the giants of Icelandic football. |
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Icelandic fruit cake is served at Christmas, and eating it is perceived as a special holiday ritual. |
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The national language is Icelandic, a northern Germanic language with some resemblance to Middle English. |
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Icelandic is the national language of Iceland, although both English and Danish are understood and spoken by many Icelanders as well. |
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I saw a news item in an Icelandic newspaper that you'd be giving a talk in Reykjavik in April, is this true? |
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Many Icelandic men took laboring jobs as unskilled factory workers and woodcutters, or as dockworkers in Milwaukee when they first arrived. |
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In 1971 the Icelandic government unilaterally declared that it was henceforth sovereign over the waters up to 50 nautical miles from its coasts. |
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New Icelandic blogger Great Auk has a pretty inspiring report of what Friedmanite economics have done for Iceland in recent years. |
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It was Asian-European fusion-fare as good as anything I've eaten in London, with dishes such a the tuna tataki or Icelandic lamb steaks. |
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Since we were paying in Icelandic kronur, it was like playing with Monopoly money. |
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Only a few weeks ago in Iceland, concerns over economic confidence were reflected by falls in both the Icelandic kronur and its stock market. |
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And the language itself, even the most fervent xenophile does not find Icelandic easy. |
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For something completely different, brave the elements in an Icelandic outdoor hot pool. |
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Their story, told in an Icelandic saga, neatly sums up the English experience of the Norman Conquest. |
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Had Guo ever read the old Icelandic sagas, she would have found the scene toward the end of The Saga of Burnt Njal quite familiar. |
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In England, William Morris translated the Icelandic sagas and Cecil Sharp collected village dances and songs. |
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The German language is related to Danish, Norwegian, Swedish, Dutch, and Icelandic, as well as to English. |
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While all the people speak Icelandic, most also speak Danish and English. |
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This also uses the IPA to explain the sound system of Icelandic. |
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Ragged trousers and a fuzzy Icelandic sweater are his work clothes. |
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Buy a pair of these and traipse around a big city center or off road through the Icelandic countryside. |
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There are, however, only a few Icelandic writers that are read beyond their coastline. |
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Much has been made of the evocative power of this Icelandic quartet. |
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Accidentally sleeping with a relative has been a running joke in Icelandic culture for a while. |
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Admittedly, saying the awful U.S. dollar isn't as lethal as, say, the busted Icelandic krona isn't saying much. |
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She worked with Eliza Reid, a Canadian based in the Icelandic capital, to set up the gathering. |
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Back outside, tiny Icelandic ponies were prancing around the ring, their riders holding aloft banners like some form of Lilliputian cavalry charge. |
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Unfortunately, despite its recent translation into languages as diverse as Hebrew and Icelandic, there are currently no plans to translate the book into Indonesian. |
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So now I'm going to have to buy some floss at Icelandic prices! |
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The Icelandic airline that flew passengers for collapsed tour operator JetGreen secured a substantial upfront payment and security deposit from the firm. |
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Norwegian literature begins with the Sagas and Eddas of the medieval Vikings, written in the language of Old Norse and found mainly in Icelandic texts. |
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During the 1970s he spent several holidays doing locums on the tiny Orkney island of Papay Westray and serving on a supply ship during the Icelandic cod wars. |
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Two individuals were included from broiler sire line B, brown-egg-layer line D, broiler dam line D, Icelandic landrace, and captive red jungle fowl G. g. gallus. |
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Like the earliest of the sagas, they were written in the late 12th century, and there are some textual relations between the Latin histories and the Icelandic sagas. |
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Gemma Hardy is the orphaned daughter of a Scottish woman and an Icelandic fisherman. |
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The Government compensation is for trawlermen hit by the Cod Wars in the 1970s when the industry collapsed because the British fleet was barred from Icelandic waters. |
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In 1901, Bram Stoker appended a new introduction to the Icelandic edition of Dracula, his most famous novel. |
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His accent is Scottish and even his Icelandic has a Scottish accent. |
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Icelandic and Faroese, however, are no longer immediately intelligible to other Scandinavians, even though they retain many features of original Scandinavian. |
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The Icelandic fans are a polite lot, keeping shtum during the quiet bits, a few going dutifully mental when the music becomes as abrasive as the grinding of tectonic plates. |
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Arnaldur Indridason, an Icelandic crime writer, has been translated into twenty languages. |
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It was Independent People, by Nobel laureate Haldor Laxness, that put modern Icelandic literature on the global map. |
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A few years ago, hitchhiking from Inverness to London, I was given a lift by an intense young man who turned out to be an Icelandic concert pianist. |
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Icelandic also has many instances of oblique cases without any governing word, much like Latin. |
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New dictionaries of the Old Norse language enabled more Victorians to read the Icelandic Sagas. |
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This is where Rask's interest in Old Norse and Icelandic language and literature was awakened. |
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A large number of competing analyses have been proposed for Icelandic phonemes. |
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Asatruarfelagid lacks a central religious temple, or hof in Icelandic. Constructing a hof has been high on the members' wish list for many years. |
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According to the Icelandic sagas, many Norwegian Vikings also went to eastern Europe. |
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It was also observed in other works of Germanic origin, Middle English poetry, and even an Icelandic prose saga. |
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From the late 13th century, Old Icelandic and Old Norwegian started to diverge more. |
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This dialect of Old West Norse was spoken by Icelandic colonies in Greenland. |
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His topics include skaldic verse, the relationship between verse and prose, Anglo-Norman and Icelandic factors, and the uses of the past. |
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The Icelandic Coast Guard has primarily been a law enforcement organisation but is also in charge of national defences. |
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The presence of water in magma reduces the melting temperature, which may also play a role in enhancing Icelandic volcanism. |
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For centuries it remained unclear whether the Icelandic stories represented real voyages by the Norse to North America. |
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Verbs have up to ten tenses, but Icelandic, like English, forms most of them with auxiliary verbs. |
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Nowadays, it is common practice to coin new compound words from Icelandic derivatives. |
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For example, in Czech, Finnish, Icelandic and Hungarian, the stress almost always comes on the first syllable of a word. |
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Sterling is at it lowest level this year against every major European currency except the Icelandic krona, the Post Office said. |
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There has been a total loss of 2000 jobs in these sectors, which were very much part of the old Icelandic economy. |
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Created in the Icelandic tradition of making the poisonous palatable by putrification, hakarl is an acquired taste. |
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It is an extension of the Icelandic Low, which creates cyclonic ocean circulation in this area. |
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About a third of the basaltic lavas erupted in recorded history have been produced by Icelandic eruptions. |
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It remains an invaluable source on both the history and genealogy of the Icelandic people. |
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He was elected twice as lawspeaker at the Icelandic parliament, the Althing. |
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In 1215, he became lawspeaker of the Althing, the only public office of the Icelandic commonwealth and a position of high respect. |
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Two of the most famous literary examples occur in the Icelandic family sagas. |
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Of the modern Scandinavian languages, written Icelandic is closest to this ancient language. |
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Icelandic speakers, in contrast, have a poor command of Norwegian and Swedish. |
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The war had a lasting impact on Icelandic society and Iceland's external relations. |
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A system of individual transferable quotas in the Icelandic fisheries, first introduced in the late 1970s, was further developed. |
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In March 2006, the United States announced that it intended to withdraw the greater part of the Icelandic Defence Force. |
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On 17 June 1944, when the Icelandic republic was founded, the Icelanders became independent from the Danish monarchy. |
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The language spoken is Icelandic, a North Germanic language, and Lutheranism is the predominant religion. |
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In particular, the lack of help in defense led to constant raids by marauding pirates along the Icelandic coasts. |
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A more recent instance of Icelandic immigration to North America occurred in 1855, when a small group settled in Spanish Fork, Utah. |
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Today, there are sizable communities of Icelandic descent in both the United States and Canada. |
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Icelandic has inflectional grammar comparable to Latin, Ancient Greek, more closely to Old English and practically identical to Old Norse. |
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The elder or Poetic Edda, the younger or Prose Edda, and the sagas are the major pieces of Icelandic literature. |
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The Faroese language is one of the North Germanic languages and is closely related to Icelandic and to western Norwegian varieties. |
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After his expulsion from Iceland Erik the Red discovered Greenland, a name he chose in hope of attracting Icelandic settlers. |
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The native languages are Swedish, Danish, Norwegian, Icelandic and Faroese, all North Germanic languages rooted in Old Norse. |
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The Icelandic Althing, founded in 930 AD, is reputed to be the oldest working parliament in the world. |
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The Icelandic Althing has 63 seats, the Norwegian Storting 169 seats and the Swedish Riksdag 349 seats. |
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This is after many years with an Icelandic growth particularly driven by investments, which had more than tripled in the recent ten years. |
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The expansion of Icelandic companies into foreign markets was a rapid process. |
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The Icelandic Sign Language is derived from the Danish, while the Finnish Sign Language is developed on the basis of the Swedish variant. |
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Since its establishment, the prize has been won by 15 Swedish, 10 Danish, 10 Norwegian, 8 Finnish, 7 Icelandic, 2 Faroe and 1 Sami writers. |
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Icelandic uses similar words for many of the same colour variations in Icelandic sheep. |
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It may have been the bloodiest and most violent period in Icelandic history. |
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At the end of the era, the Icelandic Commonwealth ceased to exist and Iceland became a vassal of Norway. |
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Consequently, the greatest Icelandic chieftains were soon affiliated with the King of Norway in one way or the other. |
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From 1813 to 1815, Rask visited Iceland, where he became fluent in Icelandic and familiarized himself with Icelandic literature and customs. |
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The academy accepted the essay but suggested that he could have spent more time comparing Icelandic with Persian and other Asian languages. |
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The editions were bilingual, with the original Icelandic accompanied by his Swedish translations. |
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The name Svalbard is first mentioned in Icelandic sagas of the 10th and 11th centuries, but this may have been Jan Mayen. |
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Old English was a moderately inflected language, using an extensive case system similar to that of modern Icelandic or German. |
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Icelandic preserves almost all of the inflections of Old Norse and has added its own. |
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The coherence of the strong verb system is still present in modern German, Dutch, Icelandic and Faroese. |
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For example, many of the various Latin ablatives have a corresponding Icelandic dative. |
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More than 8,000 Icelandic speakers live in Denmark, of whom approximately 3,000 are students. |
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The most famous of the texts, which were written in Iceland from the 12th century onward, are the Icelandic Sagas. |
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The language of the sagas is Old Icelandic, a western dialect of Old Norse. |
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The modern Icelandic alphabet has developed from a standard established in the 19th century, primarily by the Danish linguist Rasmus Rask. |
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As a result, the Irish language has had some influence on both Faroese and Icelandic. |
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They set a standard for the orthography of the language, based on its Old Norse roots and similar to that of Icelandic. |
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This had the advantage of being etymologically clear, as well as keeping the kinship with the Icelandic written language. |
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Faroese grammar is related and very similar to that of modern Icelandic and Old Norse. |
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It has been promoted to the full status of a letter in the alphabets of some languages, including Danish, Norwegian, Icelandic, and Faroese. |
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Examples of such languages include Icelandic, Scottish Gaelic, Navajo and the Pinyin transliteration of Mandarin. |
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The post of sheriff was mandated by the Old Covenant, an agreement between the Icelandic Commonwealth and the Kingdom of Norway. |
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In June, after a long winter, Keiko began regular ocean voyages from Westman Islands, his Icelandic home. |
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Air Atlanta Icelandic terminated its wet lease agreement and withdrew the airplane without notice, leading to the row. |
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Kari's film was groundbreaking in that it was elementarily Icelandic and has been considered a contemporary classic with worldwide renown. |
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North Germanic languages are Swedish, Danish, Norwegian, Faroese and Icelandic. |
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The Swedish, Finnish and Icelandic Lutheran congregations in Norway have about 27,500 members in total. |
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Merged with native oral tradition and Icelandic influence, this influenced the literature written in the late 12th and early 13th centuries. |
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The new dictionaries of the Old Norse language enabled the Victorians to grapple with the primary Icelandic sagas. |
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In most respects, including its grammar, it was much closer to modern German and Icelandic than to modern English. |
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Icelandic is the official language of Iceland, and is spoken by a significant minority in the Faroe Islands. |
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In Icelandic Heathenry, there is no singular dogmatic belief about the afterlife. |
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In Iceland, the Icelandic law states that anyone may purchase and use fireworks during a certain period around New Year's Eve. |
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However, no Swiss German dialect is as consistent as Icelandic in that respect. |
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The country's cultural heritage includes traditional Icelandic cuisine, Icelandic literature and medieval sagas. |
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The Government of Iceland established an embassy in Copenhagen and requested that Denmark handle Icelandic foreign policy. |
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A month later, British armed forces invaded and occupied the country, violating Icelandic neutrality. |
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Polar bears occasionally come over from Greenland, but they are just visitors, and no Icelandic populations exist. |
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Since May 2008, NATO nations have periodically deployed fighters to patrol Icelandic airspace under the Icelandic Air Policing mission. |
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In October 2008, the Icelandic parliament passed emergency legislation to minimise the impact of the Financial crisis. |
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As of 2006 while there are more than 40,000 Americans of Icelandic descent, according to the 2000 US census. |
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Iceland's official written and spoken language is Icelandic, a North Germanic language descended from Old Norse. |
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The Registers Iceland keeps account of the religious affiliation of every Icelandic citizen. |
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Icelandic literature is popular, in particular the sagas and eddas that were written during the High and Late Middle Ages. |
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In the 1980s, many Icelandic artists worked with the subject of the new painting in their work. |
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Some Icelandic jazz musicians and jazz bands have earned a reputation outside Iceland. |
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This is the only Icelandic movie to have ever been nominated for an Academy Award. |
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Anita Briem, known for her performance in Showtime's The Tudors, is also Icelandic. |
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Seafood is central to most Icelandic cooking, particularly cod and haddock but also salmon, herring, and halibut. |
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Sport is an important part of Icelandic culture, as the population is generally quite active. |
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In 2014 the Icelandic men's national basketball team qualified into the EuroBasket 2015 for the first time in the country history. |
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Written modern Icelandic derives from the Old Norse phonemic writing system. |
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This is still a major difference between Swedish and Faroese and Icelandic today. |
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An epenthetic vowel became popular by 1200 in Old Danish, 1250 in Old Swedish and Norwegian, and 1300 in Old Icelandic. |
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The equivalent word is also to be found in Frisian, Dutch, Norwegian, and Icelandic. |
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Rock ptarmigan meat is a popular part of festive meals in Icelandic cuisine. |
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The fresh heart of a puffin is eaten raw as a traditional Icelandic delicacy. |
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On the small Icelandic island of Grimsey as many as 200 puffins can be caught in a single morning. |
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There are related Germanic words derived through older forms such as Middle Dutch smeerle, Old High German smerle and Old Icelandic smyrill. |
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Some right whales are now said to live primarily in Icelandic waters and occasionally join to the western population. |
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First deployed to disrupt the hunt of the Icelandic whaling fleet, the Rainbow Warrior would quickly become a mainstay of Greenpeace campaigns. |
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In winter, the Norwegian Sea generally has the lowest air pressure in the entire Arctic and where most Icelandic Low depressions form. |
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In an Icelandic legend, a man threw a stone at a fin whale and hit the blowhole, causing the whale to burst. |
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These Scandinavian languages, together with Faroese and Icelandic as well as some extinct languages, constitute the North Germanic languages. |
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He examined the development of Icelandic, which had largely escaped the influences under which Norwegian had come. |
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This dispute is called the Cod War, direct confrontations between Icelandic patrol vessels and British warships. |
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This distortion was recognized by Icelandic mariners as early as the late 18th century. |
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As discussed by Eythorsson, a fourth stage in the negation cycle already appears in some cases in the Poetic Edda, and later became the norm in Old Icelandic. |
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The languages of Danish, Norwegian, Swedish, Icelandic and Faroese are all rooted in Old Norse and Danish, Norwegian and Swedish are considered mutually intelligible. |
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English, like the other insular Germanic languages, Icelandic and Faroese, developed independently of the continental Germanic languages and their influences. |
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Faroese and Icelandic, sometimes referred to as insular Scandinavian languages, are intelligible in continental Scandinavian languages only to a limited extent. |
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Faroese and Icelandic are hardly mutually intelligible with Norwegian in their spoken form because continental Scandinavian has diverged from them. |
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The same study used preliminary genealogical analyses which revealed that C1 lineage was present in the Icelandic mtDNA pool at least 300 years ago. |
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Although the four are no longer part of the English or Irish alphabets, eth and thorn are still used in the modern Icelandic and Faroese alphabets. |
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The Icelandic State Park in Pembina County and an annual Icelandic festival reflect immigrants from that country, who are also descended from Scandinavians. |
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The main North Germanic languages are Norwegian, Danish, Swedish, Icelandic, and Faroese, which have a combined total of about 20 million speakers. |
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In 2007, Chinmoy was nominated for the Nobel Peace Prize by 51 Icelandic members of Parliament, a Canadian professor, and a number of Czech professors. |
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Sullivan and Gold won plenty of plaudits for their outspoken attack on the previous Icelandic owners, who spent like a crew of drunken trawlermen in a knocking shop. |
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Icelandic speakers outside Iceland represent recent emigration in almost all cases except Gimli, Manitoba, which was settled from the 1880s onwards. |
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Icelandic saga accounts of life in Greenland were composed in the 13th century and later, and do not constitute primary sources for the history of early Norse Greenland. |
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The term skald, meaning 'poet', is generally used for poets who composed at the courts of Scandinavian and Icelandic leaders during the Viking Age and Middle Ages. |
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Other accounts read in the Middle Ages were antique Latin retellings such as the Excidium Troiae and works in the vernaculars such as the Icelandic Troy Saga. |
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The release schedule for 2002 includes Icelandic Rimur, Coimbra Fado from Portugal, South African choral music, and Bikutsi Pop from Cameroon, among many other recordings. |
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The closest living relative of the Icelandic language is Faroese. |
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Certain livestock were typical and unique to the Vikings, including the Icelandic horse, Icelandic cattle, a plethora of sheep breeds, the Danish hen and the Danish goose. |
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According to Wainwright, the name comes from the Icelandic stack meaning 'a columnar rock' and the correct translation of this should be High Rocks. |
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For this reason, the ritual is not known by this name among Icelandic Nordic pagans, who nevertheless practice a similar ritual as part of their blot. |
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Apart from the addition of new vocabulary, written Icelandic has not changed substantially since the 11th century, when the first texts were written on vellum. |
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In some languages, like Italian, Swedish, Faroese, Icelandic, many Finnish dialects and Luganda, consonant length and vowel length depend on each other. |
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Icelandic has very minor dialectal differences phonetically. |
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Icelandic has imported fewer English words than the other North Germanic languages, despite the fact that it is the country that uses English most. |
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The puristic tendency in the development of Icelandic vocabulary is to a large degree a result of conscious language planning, in addition to centuries of isolation. |
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Consequently, Icelanders refer to one another by their given name, and the Icelandic telephone directory is listed alphabetically by first name rather than by surname. |
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Icelandic retains many grammatical features of other ancient Germanic languages, and resembles Old Norwegian before much of its fusional inflection was lost. |
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This maternal haplotype, however, was found in several Icelandic samples. |
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The trade has been credited with raising Icelandic living standards. |
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In the recent years artistic practice has multiplied, and the Icelandic art scene has become a setting for many large scale projects and exhibitions. |
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Both works were written down in Iceland during the 13th century in Icelandic, although they contain material from earlier traditional sources, reaching into the Viking Age. |
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Icelandic patrolships and British trawlers clashed in all four Cod Wars. |
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The Prose Edda, sometimes referred to as the Younger Edda or Snorri's Edda, is an Icelandic manual of poetics which also contains many mythological stories. |
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Another Icelandic colony formed in Washington Island, Wisconsin. |
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In October 2008, the Icelandic banking system collapsed, prompting Iceland to seek large loans from the International Monetary Fund and friendly countries. |
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The European golden plover spends summers in Iceland, and in Icelandic folklore, the appearance of the first plover in country means that spring has arrived. |
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Rifle shooting became very popular in the 19th century with the encouragement of politicians and nationalists who were pushing for Icelandic independence. |
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Of the modern languages, Icelandic is the closest to Old Norse. |
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All Icelandic things were skap-thing, meaning that they were governed by established procedure and met at regular legally designated intevals at predetermined meeting places. |
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In Grimm's first editions, his Icelandic paradigms are based entirely on Rask's grammar, and in his second edition, he relied almost entirely on Rask for Old English. |
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Rask, in his essay on the origin of the Icelandic language, gave the same comparisons, with a few additions and corrections, and even the same examples in most cases. |
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Additionally, Icelandic permits a quirky subject, which is a phenomenon in which certain verbs specify that their subjects are to be in a case other than the nominative. |
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Uchronic visions were part of Icelandic collective representations of the world, and as such they deeply influenced the response of the society to its own history. |
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The main North Germanic languages are Swedish, Danish, Norwegian, Icelandic and Faroese, which have a combined total of about 20 million speakers. |
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Among the most famous manuscripts in the institute's care are Flateyjarbok, the largest of all the early Icelandic manuscript volumes and The Codex Regius of the Eddic poems. |
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By discouraging all but religious leisure activities, it fostered a certain dourness, which was for a long time considered an Icelandic stereotype. |
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Most Icelandic music contains vibrant folk and pop traditions. |
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It is one of five languages descended from Old West Norse spoken in the Middle Ages, the others being Norwegian, Icelandic, and the extinct Norn and Greenlandic Norse. |
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Since the moratorium on commercial whaling, some sei whales have been taken by Icelandic and Japanese whalers under the IWC's scientific research programme. |
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The Icelandic national handball team has enjoyed relative success. |
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Comparing this to the spelling of the same text in Modern Icelandic shows that, while pronunciation has changed greatly, spelling has changed little. |
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He was inspired by the work of Danish philologist Rasmus Rask as a boy, and with the help of Rask's grammars taught himself some Icelandic, Italian, and Spanish. |
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Icelandic is distinguished by a wide assortment of irregular declensions. |
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