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G@. — 17432 — (Ponrorripan, Chapt. VIII, § 7). — “It is 
said that a few years ago a sea-serpent stranded on the cliffs near 
Amund in Nordfjord, perhaps with high water, and died there and 
the carrion also caused a dreadful smell.” 
@. — 1744? — (Ponrorrrpan, Chapt. VIII, § 7). — “It is 
also told that a sea-serpent stranded near the Isle of Karmen and 
that the stranding of sea-serpents took place in more localities.” 
There is nothing strange in the stranding of sea-serpents. Un- 
luckily the fear of the Norwegian people of sea-serpents is great 
enough to keep them far away from them, even from their car- 
rions, and so these accounts don’t mention anything as a result of 
closer investigation. 
@ — 17452 — (Ponvopripan, Chapt. VIIT, § 1, note). — 
“A fisherman relates to me that, on Sundsland, two miles from 
Bergen, he once saw a long, large and strange animal so close to 
his boat, that the water, brought im motion by the animal, dashed 
against it, but immediately it disappeared again under water. The 
head resembled that of a seal, its skin was also as woolly, but 
the body was as thick and as long as a yacht of fifty tons, and 
the tail, which seemed to be about thirty-five feet long, tapered 
towards the end which was as pointed as a boat-hook.” 
Though Ponropprpan did not seem to believe that this animal 
was his sea-serpent, I am convinced that such was indeed the 
case, because the whole description is exactly that of the animal. 
It is remarkable that all the persons who saw the sea-serpent so 
close to their boat, as this fisherman did, agree in giving it a 
smooth skin; now seals when wet have also a smooth skin, and our 
fisherman was near enough to the animal to detect the real nature 
of such a skin, viz. that it is Aairy, or as he expresses himself 
woolly. We shall afterwards more than once meet with statements 
in which the head is compared with that of a seal. The head, 
though resembling that of a seal, was of course much larger. The 
body was as thick and as long as a yacht of fifty tons, say about 
forty feet, and the tail was about thirty-five feet in length, and 
tapered to its pointed end, like the animal of Eerpr and those of 
the former writers Macnus, Ouzartus and Ramus, who compared 
