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Otis finds a piece of driftwood on Crane Beach reminiscent of a whale.

i. Italian broadside (engraving), on the stranding of a whale near Ancona, Italy (25 February 1602).

This broadside was possibly sold by the owners of a travelling exhibit featuring the skeleton of this whale. Barthelmess Whaling Collection, No.…

e. 1598+ Anonymous after Glotzius. The Stranded Whale On the Beach at Zandvoort.

f. 1598+ Matham Jacob after Glotzius. Baltimore Museum of Art.

g. Jan Saenredam, Stranded Whale near Beverwijk, 19 December, 1601. 1602. Engraving. New Bedford…

Whale being flensed on the Faroe Islands

Described as "A little book, that more closely explains a map of the Nordic cold, beyond the Germanic sea located country, which presents its extremely peculiar, priorly known neither to Greeks or…

_Eirik’s Saga_ (_Eiríks saga rauða_) (14th c.) [one of the two Norse accounts of the settlement of Vinland]

"They stayed there that winter, which turned out to be a very severe one; they had made no provision for it during the summer, and now…

_Grettir’s Saga_, or the _Saga of Grettir the Strong_ (_Grettis saga Ásmundarsona_r) (14th c.)

"I’ve heard how steely weapons were used, when whale-blubber was wielded at Rif Skerries. The fighters kept exchanging lethal whale-meat missiles.…

The _Gulaþing_ was an annual parliament held at Gulen on the west coast of Norway from c. 900-1300 C.E. The _Gulaþinglova_ (law), legislation compiled over the centuries and extant in the _Codex Ranzovianus_ (1250), contains this:

"A hauld or a…