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Folk-Lore

About the beginning of the century they were modelled in Norway and temporarily put together there with timmer pins. The pieces were numbered and shipped in

Fig. 10.—Shetland Sixern.
Fig. 10.—Shetland Sixern.

Fig. 10.—Shetland Sixern.

bundles to Shetland, where local carpenters were employed to "set them up," or put the parts together with seam and röv, and make them ready for sea. In

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