Editing Baldr

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[[Image:Each arrow overshot his head by Elmer Boyd Smith.jpg|thumb|right|"Each arrow overshot his head" (1902) by [[Elmer Boyd Smith]].]]
'''Baldr''' ([[Old Norse]]  also '''Balder''', '''Baldur''') is a [[æsir|god]] in [[Germanic mythology]]. In [[Norse mythology]], he is a son of the god [[Odin]] and the goddess [[Frigg]], and has [[Sons of Odin|numerous brothers]], such as [[Thor]] and [[Váli]]. In wider Germanic mythology, the god was known in [[Old English]] as '''{{lang|ang|Bældæġ}}''', and in [[Old High German]] as '''{{lang|goh|Balder}}''', all ultimately stemming from the [[Proto-Germanic language|Proto-Germanic]] [[theonym]] {{lang|gem-x-proto|*'''Balðraz'''}} ('hero' or 'prince').

During the 12th century, Danish accounts by [[Saxo Grammaticus]] and other Danish Latin chroniclers recorded a [[Euhemerism|euhemerized]] account of his story. Compiled in [[Iceland]] during the 13th century, but based on older [[Old Norse poetry]], the ''[[Poetic Edda]]'' and the ''[[Prose Edda]]'' contain numerous references to the death of Baldr as both a great tragedy to the [[Æsir]] and a harbinger of [[Ragnarök]].

According to ''[[Gylfaginning]]'', a book of [[Snorri Sturluson]]'s Prose Edda, Baldr's wife is [[Nanna (Norse deity)|Nanna]] and their son is [[Forseti]]. Baldr had the greatest ship ever built, ''[[Hringhorni]]'', and there is no place more beautiful than his hall, [[Breidablik]].

==Name==
The [[Old Norse]] [[theonym]] ''Baldr'' ('brave, defiant'; also 'lord, prince') and its various Germanic cognates – including [[Old English]] ''Bældæg'' and [[Old High German]] ''Balder'' (or ''Palter'') – probably stems from [[Proto-Germanic language|Proto-Germanic]] ''*Balðraz'' ('Hero, Prince'; cf. Old Norse ''mann-baldr'' 'great man', Old English ''bealdor'' 'prince, hero'), itself a [[Morphological derivation|derivative]] of ''*balþaz'', meaning 'brave' (cf. Old Norse ''ballr'' 'hard, stubborn', [[Gothic language|Gothic]] ''balþa*'' 'bold, frank', Old English ''beald'' 'bold, brave, confident', Old Saxon ''bald'' 'valiant, bold', Old High German ''bald'' 'brave, courageous').{{Sfn|de Vries|1962|p=24}}{{Sfn|Orel|2003|p=|pp=33–34}}

This etymology was originally proposed by [[Jacob Grimm]] (1835),<ref>{{Cite book |last=Grimm |first=Jacob |title=Teutonic Mythology |date=2004 |publisher=Courier Corporation |isbn=978-0-486-43546-6 |page=[https://books.google.com/books?id=I2WhHX2peKEC&pg=PA220 220] |language=en |orig-year=1835}}</ref> who also speculated on a comparison with the [[Lithuanian language|Lithuanian]] ''báltas'' ('white', also the name of a light-god) based on the semantic development from 'white' to 'shining' then 'strong'.{{Sfn|de Vries|1962|p=24}}{{Sfn|Orel|2003|p=|pp=33–34}} According to linguist [[Vladimir Orel]], this could be linguistically tenable.{{Sfn|Orel|2003|p=|pp=33–34}} Philologist [[Rudolf Simek]] also argues that the Old English ''Bældæg'' should be interpreted as meaning 'shining day', from a Proto-Germanic root *''bēl''- (cf. Old English ''bæl'', Old Norse ''bál'' 'fire'){{Sfn|Kroonen|2013|p=57}} attached to ''dæg'' ('day').{{Sfn|Simek|1996|p=26}}

Old Norse also shows the usage of the word as an honorific in a few cases, as in ''baldur î brynju'' ([[Saemundar Edda|Sæm.]] 272b) and ''herbaldr'' (Sæm. 218b), in general epithets of heroes. In continental Saxon and Anglo-Saxon tradition, the son of [[Odin|Woden]] is called not ''Bealdor'' but ''Baldag'' (Saxon) and ''[[Anglo-Saxon royal genealogies#Wessex and Bernicia|Bældæg, Beldeg]]'' (Anglo-Saxon), which shows association with "day", possibly with [[Dagr|Day]] personified as a deity. This, as Grimm points out, would agree with the meaning "shining one, white one, a god" derived from the meaning of Baltic ''baltas'', further adducing Slavic ''[[Belobog]]'' and German ''[[Berhta]]''.<ref>"''Bæl-dæg'' itself is white-god, light-god, he that shines as sky and light and day, the kindly ''Bièlbôgh, Bèlbôgh'' of the Slav system. It is in perfect accord with this explanation of ''Bæl-dæg'', that the Anglo-Saxon tale of ancestry assigns to him a son Brond, of whom the Edda is silent, ''brond, brand'', ON. ''brandr'' (fire brand or blade of a sword), signifying ''jubar, fax, titio''. Bældæg therefore, as regards his name, would agree with ''Berhta'', the bright goddess.</ref>

==Attestations==

===Merseburg Incantation===
One of the two [[Merseburg Incantations]] names ''Balder'' (in the genitive singular ''Balderes''), but also mentions a figure named ''Phol'', considered to be a byname for Baldr (as in Scandinavian ''Falr'', ''Fjalarr''; (in Saxo) ''Balderus'' : ''Fjallerus''). The incantation relates of ''Phol ende [[Wotan]]'' riding to the woods, where the foot of Baldr's foal is sprained. Sinthgunt (the sister of the sun), [[Frigg]] and Odin sing to the foot in order for it to heal.<ref name="CALVIN">[[Calvin Thomas (linguist)|Calvin, Thomas]]. ''An Anthology of German Literature'', D.C. Heath & Co. {{ASIN|B0008BTK3E}}, {{ASIN|B00089RS3K}}. pp. 5–6.</ref> The identification with Balder is not conclusive. Modern scholarship suggests that the god [[Freyr]] might be meant.<ref>Wolfgang Beck: ''Die Merseburger Zaubersprüche.'' Wiesbaden 2003.</ref>

===''Poetic Edda''===
[[Image:Mímer and Balder Consulting the Norns (1821-1822) by H. E. Freund.jpg|thumb|"Mímir and Baldr Consulting the Norns" (1821–1822) by [[H. E. Freund]].]]
[[Image:Balder.jpg|thumb|right|Baldr in an illustration to a Swedish translation of the Elder Edda.]]

Unlike the Prose Edda, in the Poetic Edda the tale of Baldr's death is referred to rather than recounted at length. Baldr is mentioned in ''[[Völuspá]]'', in ''[[Lokasenna]]'', and is the subject of the Eddic poem ''[[Baldr's Dreams]]''.

Among the visions which the [[Völva]] sees and describes in Völuspá is Baldr's death. In stanza 32, the Völva says she saw the fate of Baldr "the bleeding god":

{{poemquote|<small>[[Henry Adams Bellows (businessman)|Henry Adams Bellows]] translation:</small>
I saw for Baldr, {{!}} the bleeding god,
The son of Othin, {{!}} his destiny set:
Famous and fair {{!}} in the lofty fields,
Full grown in strength {{!}} the mistletoe stood.<ref name="Bellows">[[Henry Adams Bellows (businessman)|Bellows, Henry Adams]] (1923). ''The Poetic Edda''. [[American-Scandinavian Foundation]]. pp. 14–15, 25, 195–200.</ref>}}

In the next two stanzas, the Völva refers to Baldr's killing, describes the birth of [[Váli]] for the slaying of [[Höðr]] and the weeping of [[Frigg]]:
{{poemquote|''Stanza 33:''
From the branch which seemed {{!}} so slender and fair
Came a harmful shaft {{!}} that Hoth should hurl;
But the brother of Baldr {{!}} was born ere long,
And one night old {{!}} fought Othin's son.

''Stanza 34:''
His hands he washed not, {{!}} his hair he combed not,
Till he bore to the bale-blaze {{!}} Baldr's foe.
But in Fensalir {{!}} did Frigg weep sore
For Valhall's need: {{!}} would you know yet more?<ref name="Bellows" />}}

In stanza 62 of Völuspá, looking far into the future, the Völva says that Höðr and Baldr will come back, with the union, according to Bellows, being a symbol of the new age of peace:

{{poemquote|Then fields unsowed {{!}} bear ripened fruit,
All ills grow better, {{!}} and Baldr comes back;
Baldr and Hoth dwell {{!}} in Hropt's battle-hall,
And the mighty gods: {{!}} would you know yet more?<ref name="Bellows" />}}

[[Image:Lokasenna by Lorenz Frølich.jpg|thumb|A depiction of Loki quarreling with the gods (1895) by [[Lorenz Frølich]].]]

Baldr is mentioned in two stanzas of Lokasenna, a poem which describes a [[flyting]] between the gods and the god [[Loki]]. In the first of the two stanzas, Frigg, Baldr's mother, tells Loki that if she had a son like Baldr, Loki would be killed:

{{poemquote|''[[Jackson Crawford]] translation:''
You know, if I had a son
like Balder, sitting here
with me in Aegir's hall,
in the presence of these gods,
I declare you would never come out
alive, you'd be killed shortly.<ref name="Crawford">[[Jackson Crawford|Crawford, Jackson]]. (2015). ''The Poetic Edda: Stories of the Norse Gods and Heroes''. [[Hackett Publishing Company]]. p. 106.</ref>}}

In the next stanza, Loki responds to Frigg, and says that he is the reason Baldr "will never ride home again":

{{poemquote|You must want me
to recount even more
of my mischief, Frigg.
After all, I'm the one
who made it so that Balder
will never ride home again.<ref name="Crawford" />}}

[[Image:Odin rides to Hel.jpg|thumb|right|upright=1.36|"Odin rides to Hel" (1908) by [[W. G. Collingwood]]]]

The Eddic poem ''[[Baldr's Dreams]]'' opens with the gods holding a council discussing why Baldr had had bad dreams:
{{poemquote|''Henry Adams Bellows translation:''
Once were the gods {{!}} together met,
And the goddesses came {{!}} and council held,
And the far-famed ones {{!}} the truth would find,
Why baleful dreams {{!}} to Baldr had come.<ref name="Bellows" />}}

Odin then rides to [[Hel (location)|Hel]] to a Völva's grave and awakens her using magic. The Völva asks Odin, who she does not recognize, who he is, and Odin answers that he is Vegtam ("Wanderer"). Odin asks the Völva for whom are the benches covered in rings and the floor covered in gold. The Völva tells him that in their location mead is brewed for Baldr, and that she spoke unwillingly, so she will speak no more:

{{poemquote|Here for Baldr {{!}} the mead is brewed,
The shining drink, {{!}} and a shield lies o'er it;
But their hope is gone {{!}} from the mighty gods.
Unwilling I spake, {{!}} and now would be still.<ref name="Bellows" />}}

Odin asks the Völva to not be silent and asks her who will kill Baldr. The Völva replies and says that Höðr will kill Baldr, and again says that she spoke unwillingly, and that she will speak no more:

{{poemquote|Hoth thither bears {{!}} the far-famed branch,
He shall the bane {{!}} of Baldr become,
And steal the life {{!}} from Othin's son.
Unwilling I spake, {{!}} and now would be still.<ref name="Bellows" />}}

Odin again asks the Völva to not be silent and asks her who will avenge Baldr's death. The Völva replies that Váli will, when he will be one night old. Once again, she says that she will speak no more:

{{poemquote|[[Rindr|Rind]] bears Vali {{!}} in Vestrsalir,
And one night old {{!}} fights Othin's son;
His hands he shall wash not, {{!}} his hair he shall comb not,
Till the slayer of Baldr {{!}} he brings to the flames.
Unwilling I spake, {{!}} and now would be still.<ref name="Bellows" />}}

Odin again asks the Völva to not be silent and says that he seeks to know who the women that will then weep be. The Völva realizes that Vegtam is Odin in disguise. Odin says that the Völva is not a Völva, and that she is the mother of three giants. The Völva tells Odin to ride back home proud, because she will speak to no more men until Loki escapes his bounds.<ref name="Bellows" />

===''Prose Edda''===
[[Image:SÁM 66, 75v, death of Baldr.jpg|thumb|right|Baldr's death is portrayed in this illustration from an 18th-century [[Iceland]]ic manuscript.]]

In ''Gylfaginning'', Baldr is described as follows:

{{verse translation|lang=non|Annarr sonr Óðins er Baldr, ok er frá honum gott at segja. Hann er beztr, ok hann lofa allir. Hann er svá fagr álitum ok bjartr, svá at lýsir af honum, ok eitt gras er svá hvítt, at jafnat er til Baldrs brár. Þat er allra grasa hvítast, ok þar eftir máttu marka fegurð hans bæði á hár ok á líki. Hann er vitrastr ásanna ok fegrst talaðr ok líknsamastr, en sú náttúra fylgir honum, at engi má haldast dómr hans. Hann býr þar, sem heitir Breiðablik. Þat er á himni. Í þeim stað má ekki vera óhreint[.]<ref>{{Cite web |title=Guðni Jónsson's edition of the Prose Edda |url=https://heimskringla.no/wiki/Gylfaginning |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230829011513/https://heimskringla.no/wiki/Gylfaginning |archive-date=29 August 2023 |access-date=25 August 2023}}</ref>

|The second son of Odin is Baldr, and good things are to be said of him. He is best, and all praise him; he is so fair of feature, and so bright, that light shines from him. [[Matricaria perforata|A certain herb]] is so white that it is likened to Baldr's brow; of all grasses it is whitest, and by it thou mayest judge his fairness, both in hair and in body. He is the wisest of the Æsir, and the fairest-spoken and most gracious; and that quality attends him, that none may gainsay his judgments. He dwells in the place called Breidablik, which is in heaven; in that place may nothing unclean be[.] |attr2=''Brodeur's translation''<ref>{{Cite web |title=Gylfaginning, XXII |url=http://www.northvegr.org/lore/prose/033036.php |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070930222057/http://www.northvegr.org/lore/prose/033036.php |archive-date=30 September 2007 |access-date=23 September 2007}}</ref>}}

Apart from this description, Baldr is known primarily for the story of his death, which is seen as the first in a chain of events that will ultimately lead to the destruction of the gods at [[Ragnarök]].

Baldr had a dream of his own death and his mother, [[Frigg]], had the same dream. Since dreams were usually prophetic, this depressed him, and so Frigg made every object on earth [[vow]] never to hurt Baldr. All objects made this vow, save for the [[mistletoe]]<ref name="The Children of Odin">{{Cite book |last=Colum |first=Padraic |author-link=Padraic Colum |title=The Children of Odin |publisher=Aladdin Paperbacks |year=1920 |isbn=0689868855}}</ref>—a detail which has traditionally been explained with the idea that it was too unimportant and nonthreatening to bother asking it to make the vow, but which Merrill Kaplan has instead argued echoes the fact that young people were not eligible to swear legal oaths, which could make them a threat later in life.<ref>Merrill Kaplan, 'Once More on the Mistletoe', in ''News from Other Worlds/''Tíðendi ór ǫðrum heimum'': Studies in Nordic Folklore, Mythology and Culture in Honor of John F. Lindow'', ed. by Merrill Kaplan and Timothy R. Tangherlini, Wildcat Canyon Advanced Seminars Occasional Monographs, 1 (Berkeley, CA: North Pinehurst Press, 2012), pp. 36–60; {{ISBN|0578101742}}.</ref>

[[Image:Odin's last words to Baldr.jpg|thumb|''Odin's last words to Baldr'' (1908) by [[W. G. Collingwood]].]]
When [[Loki]], the mischief-maker, heard of this, he made a magical spear from this plant (in some later versions, an arrow). He hurried to the place where the gods were indulging in their new pastime of hurling objects at Baldr, which would bounce off without harming him. Loki gave the spear to Baldr's brother, the blind god [[Höðr]], who then inadvertently killed his brother with it (other versions suggest that Loki guided the arrow himself). For this act, Odin and the ''ásynja'' [[Rindr]] gave birth to [[Váli (son of Odin)|Váli]], who grew to adulthood within a day and slew Höðr.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Gylfaginning, XLIX |url=http://www.northvegr.org/lore/prose/069072.php |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070930184501/http://www.northvegr.org/lore/prose/069072.php |archive-date=30 September 2007 |access-date=23 September 2007}}</ref>

Baldr was ceremonially burnt upon his ship [[Hringhorni]], the largest of all ships. On the pyre he was given the magical ring [[Draupnir]]. At first the gods were not able to push the ship out onto sea, and so they sent for [[Hyrrokin]], a [[giantess]], who came riding on a wolf and gave the ship such a push that fire flashed from the rollers and all the earth shook.

As he was carried to the ship, Odin whispered something in his ear. The import of this speech was held to be unknowable,<ref>According to Carolyne Larrington in her translation of the ''Poetic Edda'' it is assumed that what Odin whispered in Baldr's ear was a promise of resurrection.</ref> and the question of what was said was thus used as an unanswerable riddle by Odin in other sources, namely against the giant [[Vafthrudnir]] in the Eddic poem ''[[Vafthrudnismal]]'' and in the riddles of [[Gestumblindi]] in ''[[Hervarar saga]]''.

Upon seeing the corpse being carried to the ship, Nanna, his wife, died of grief. She was then placed on the funeral fire (perhaps a toned-down instance of [[Sati (practice)|Sati]], also attested in the Arab traveller [[Norse funeral#Ibn Fadlan's account|Ibn Fadlan's account of a funeral]] among the [[Rus' people|Rus']]), after which it was set on fire. Baldr's horse with all its trappings was also laid on the pyre.

As the pyre was set on fire, [[Thor]] blessed it with his hammer [[Mjǫllnir]]. As he did a small dwarf named [[Litr]] came running before his feet. Thor then kicked him into the pyre.

Upon Frigg's entreaties, delivered through the messenger [[Hermóðr|Hermod]], [[Hel (goddess)|Hel]] promised to release Baldr from the [[Hel (location)|underworld]] if all objects alive and dead would weep for him. All did, except a [[giantess]], [[Þökk]] (often presumed to be the god [[Loki]] in disguise), who refused to mourn the slain god. Thus Baldr had to remain in the underworld, not to emerge until after Ragnarök, when he and his brother Höðr would be reconciled and rule the new earth together with [[Móði and Magni|Thor's sons]].

Besides these descriptions of Baldr, the Prose Edda also explicitly links him to the Anglo-Saxon ''Beldeg'' in its prologue.

===''Gesta Danorum''===
[[File:Baldur (Walhall).png|thumb|''Baldur'' by [[Johannes Gehrts]].]]
Writing during the end of the 12th century, the [[Denmark|Danish]] historian [[Saxo Grammaticus]] tells the story of Baldr (recorded as ''Balderus'') in a form that professes to be historical.  According to him, Balderus and Høtherus were rival suitors for the hand of Nanna, daughter of Gewar, King of [[Norway]]. Balderus was a demigod and common [[steel]] could not wound his sacred body. The two rivals encountered each other in a terrific battle. Though Odin and Thor and the other gods fought for Balderus, he was defeated and fled away, and Høtherus married the princess.

Nevertheless, Balderus took heart of grace and again met Høtherus in a stricken field. But he fared even worse than before. Høtherus dealt him a deadly wound with a [[magic sword]] which he had received from Mimir, the satyr of the woods; after lingering three days in pain Balderus died of his injury and was buried with royal honours in a barrow.

===Utrecht Inscription===
A Latin votive inscription from Utrecht, from the 3rd or 4th century C.E., has been theorized as containing the dative form ''Baldruo'',<ref name="Die germanischen Götternamen der antiken Inschriften">{{Cite book |last=Gutenbrunner |first=Siegfried |author-link=Siegfried Gutenbrunner |title=Die germanischen Götternamen der antiken Inschriften |publisher=Max Niemeyer Verlag |year=1936}}, pp. 210, 218–20.</ref> pointing to a Latin nominative singular *''Baldruus'', which some have identified with the Norse/Germanic god,<ref name="Heathen Gods in Old English Literature">{{Cite book |last=North |first=Richard |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=X_LKUIqNvPQC&q=Heathen+Gods+in+Old+English+Literature&pg=PP1 |title=Heathen Gods in Old English Literature |publisher=[[Cambridge University Press]] |year=1997 |isbn=0521551838 |page=126 |access-date=30 October 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230423144518/https://books.google.com/books?id=X_LKUIqNvPQC&q=Heathen+Gods+in+Old+English+Literature&pg=PP1 |archive-date=23 April 2023 |url-status=live}}</ref> although both the reading and this interpretation have been questioned.<ref name="Van Ægir tot Ymir: personages en thema's uit de Germaanse en Noordse mythologie">{{Cite book |last=Vermeyden |first=Pamela & Quak, Arend |title=Van Ægir tot Ymir: personages en thema's uit de Germaanse en Noordse mythologie |publisher=Cambridge University Press |year=2000 |isbn=906168661X |page=43}}.</ref><ref name="''Balder'', in Reallexikon der Germanischen Altertumskunde">{{Cite book |last=Helm |first=Karl |title=''Balder'', in Reallexikon der Germanischen Altertumskunde |publisher=Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG |year=1976 |page=2}}</ref>

=== ''Anglo-Saxon Chronicle'' ===
In the [[Anglo-Saxon Chronicle]] Baldr is named as the ancestor of the monarchy of [[Kingdom of Kent|Kent]], [[Bernicia]], [[Deira]], and [[Wessex]] through his supposed son [[Anglo-Saxon royal genealogies|Brond]].<ref>{{Cite book |title=Anglo-Saxons Chronicle (Winchester Chronicle)}}</ref>

===Toponyms===
There are a few old place names in Scandinavia that contain the name ''Baldr''. The most certain and notable one is the (former) parish name [[Balleshol]] in Hedmark county, Norway: "a Balldrshole" 1356 (where the last element is ''hóll'' m "mound; small hill"). Others may be (in [[North Germanic languages|Norse]] forms) ''Baldrsberg'' in Vestfold county, ''Baldrsheimr'' in Hordaland county ''Baldrsnes'' in Sør-Trøndelag county—and (very uncertain) the [[Balsfjorden]] fjord and [[Balsfjord Municipality]] in Troms county.

In [[Copenhagen]], there is also a Baldersgade, or "Balder's Street". A street in downtown [[Reykjavík]] is called Baldursgata (Baldur's Street).

In [[Sweden]] there is a Baldersgatan (Balder's Street) in [[Stockholm]]. There is also Baldersnäs (Balder's isthmus), Baldersvik (Balder's bay), Balders udde (Balder's headland) and Baldersberg (Balder's mountain) at various places.

==See also==
* [[List of Germanic deities]]
* [[Lemminkäinen]]

==References==
{{Reflist}}

=== Bibliography ===
* {{Cite book |last=de Vries |first=Jan |author-link=Jan de Vries (linguist) |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=hLceAAAAIAAJ |title=Altnordisches Etymologisches Worterbuch |date=1962 |publisher=Brill |isbn=978-9004054363 |edition=1977}}
*{{Cite book |last=Kroonen |first=Guus |title=Etymological Dictionary of Proto-Germanic |publisher=Brill |year=2013 |isbn=9789004183407}}
* {{Cite book |last=Orel |first=Vladimir E. |author-link=Vladimir Orel |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=LY1iAAAAMAAJ |title=A Handbook of Germanic Etymology |date=2003 |publisher=Brill |isbn=978-9004128750 |language=en}}
* {{Cite book |last=Simek |first=Rudolf |author-link=Rudolf Simek |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=MZ24QgAACAAJ |title=Dictionary of Northern Mythology |date=1996 |publisher=D.S. Brewer |isbn=978-0859915137 |language=en}}

==Further reading==
{{EB1911 poster|Balder}}

* [[Anatoly Liberman]], [http://userpage.fu-berlin.de/~alvismal/11baldr.pdf "Some Controversial Aspects of the Myth of Baldr,"] Alvíssmál 11 (2004): 17–54.
* [[John Lindow]], ''Murder and Vengeance Among the Gods: Baldr in Scandinavian Mythology''. [[Suomalainen Tiedeakatemia]] (1997), {{ISBN|9514108094}}.
* Jacob Grimm, ''[[Deutsche Mythologie]]'' (1835), chapter 11 "Paltar".

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