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split the whole stub loose and to pieces. This dog was 

 entirely, ring and hook, of iron. The diameter of the 

 ring was 7 inches ; the length of the hook, kroken, 1 

 foot ; the breadth of the hook at B, where it was thickest, 

 was 2 inches, and at the same part of the hook measured 

 across, 1 inch, derstades pa hakan en turn. Inside 

 the hook between A and B, were several scores, in- 

 huggna Skaror, so that it might get a better hold. 

 After he had got up the whole stub, it was hewn and 

 cloven to pieces for firewood. The reason, why the carl 

 took up this stub was partly thereby to get firewood, 

 partly and principally because he wished to take in this 

 broad ' rein,' ren, to the ploughed field. He told me 

 also that many acres of land, manga, Acre-land, in 

 many places hereabouts had been cleared and made into 

 arable fields or meadows in the same way. 



He drove down the iron wedges with a wooden beetle, 

 tra-klubba, [T. I. p. 242] and when he went home, he 

 had two boards of the length of the beetle nailed together 

 at the sides ad unguium rectum, which he laid like a roof 

 over the mallet, so that it might not take any harm from 

 the rain. 



Mass nog pa krit-jord. Moss enough on the Chalk-soil. 



I have said before (p. 237 orig.) that all the soil, 

 jordmon, on this tract was nothing else than chalk- 

 ground, krit-grund, none the less for that mosses will 

 thrive incredibly on the same ; for nearly all meadows, 

 acre-reins by the hedges, pastures, commons, utmarker, 

 in a word, all grass land, which is not often remade, 

 omlagad, and manured was so overgrown with mosses, 

 Bryum and Hypnum, that our most moss-choked meadows 

 in Sweden can scarcely be worse. We remarked that in 

 some of these moss-grown places there were here and 

 there green plats, plattar, of a luxuriant green grass, 



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