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English: An engraving showing people trying to escape from a monster-whale. It is an illustration to the Icelandic legend of Redhead (Rauðhöfði) which is said to be the cause of formation of Glymur, the highest waterfall in Iceland (198 m). |
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| Date | Published in 1864 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Source | Icelandic Legends : Collected by Jón Arnason : Translated by George E. J. Powell and Eiríkur Magnússon, Richard Bentley, London, 1864. This illustration facing page 72. Digitized version from Google Books, https://books.google.com/books?id=qDAeAAAAMAAJ | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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