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Journal articles on the topic "Old English poems"

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Lacey, Eric, and Simon Thomson. "II Old English." Year's Work in English Studies 98, no. 1 (2019): 167–200. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/ywes/maz012.

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Abstract This chapter has eleven sections: 1. Bibliography; 2. Manuscript Studies, Palaeography, and Facsimiles; 3. Cultural and Intellectual Contexts; 4. Literature: General; 5. The Poems of the Exeter Book; 6. The Poems of the Vercelli Book; 7. The Poems of the Junius Manuscript; 8. Beowulf and the Beowulf Manuscript; 9. Other Poems; 10. Prose; 11. Reception. Sections 1, 5, and 9 are by Simon Thomson and Eric Lacey; sections 2, 6, 7, and 8 are by Simon Thomson; sections 3, 4, 10, and 11 are by Eric Lacey.
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Neidorf, Leonard. "The Complete Old English Poems." English Studies 99, no. 6 (August 18, 2018): 705–11. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/0013838x.2018.1497835.

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Cronan, Dennis. "Poetic words, conservatism and the dating of Old English poetry." Anglo-Saxon England 33 (December 2004): 23–50. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s026367510400002x.

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Although the lexicon has frequently been used in discussions of the dating of Old English poetry, little attention has been paid to the evidence that poetic simplexes offer. One exception is an article by R. J. Menner, who noted that Beowulf and Genesis A share three poetic words, apart from compounds, that are not found elsewhere: freme ‘good, valiant’, gombe ‘tribute’, and secg ‘sword’. Menner used these words as part of an argument for an early date of Genesis A, an argument which hinged, in part, on lexical similarities between this poem and Beowulf, which he assumed was early. Although such an a priori assumption is no longer possible, evidence provided by the limited distribution of certain poetic simplexes is nonetheless useful for demonstrating the presence of a connection between two or more poems. Such a connection may be a matter of date or dialect, or it may indicate that the poems were the products of a single poetic school or subtradition. Unfortunately, we know little, if anything, about poetic subtraditions, and the poetic koiné makes the determination of the dialect of individual poems a complex and subtle matter that requires a much wider variety of evidence than poetic words can provide. However, the limited distribution of certain poetic simplexes can serve as an index of the poetic conservatism of the poems in which these words occur. This conservatism could be due to a number of factors: genre, content (that is, heroic legend vs biblical or hagiographical), style, or date of composition. As will emerge in the course of this discussion, the most straightforward explanation for this conservatism is that the poems which exhibit it were composed earlier than those which do not. Other explanations are, however, possible, and the evidence of poetic words is hardly sufficient by itself to determine the dating of Old English poems. But by focusing on patterns of distribution that centre upon Beowulf, we can examine what certain words may tell us about the conservatism of this poem and of those poems which are connected to it.
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Harris, Joseph. "The Old English Catalogue Poems. Nicholas Howe." Speculum 62, no. 4 (October 1987): 953–56. http://dx.doi.org/10.2307/2851810.

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Anlezark, Daniel. "Poisoned places: the Avernian tradition in Old English poetry." Anglo-Saxon England 36 (November 14, 2007): 103–26. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0263675107000051.

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AbstractScholars have long disputed whether or not Beowulf reflects the influence of Classical Latin literature. This essay examines the motif of the ‘poisoned place’ present in a range of texts known to the Anglo-Saxons, most famously represented by Avernus in the Aeneid. While Grendel's mere presents the best-known poisonous locale in Old English poetry, another is found in the dense and enigmatic poem Solomon and Saturn II. The relationship between these poems is discussed beside a consideration of the possibility that their use of the ‘Avernian tradition’ points to the influence of Latin epic on their Anglo-Saxon authors.
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Bintley, Michael D. J. "On the Aesthetics ofBeowulfand Other Old English Poems." English Studies 92, no. 5 (August 2011): 576–77. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/0013838x.2011.584438.

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Hartman, Megan E. "The Form and Style of Gnomic Hypermetrics." Studia Metrica et Poetica 1, no. 1 (April 22, 2014): 68–99. http://dx.doi.org/10.12697/smp.2013.1.1.05.

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Gnomic poems have often been noted for their unusual metrical style. One aspect of their style that stands out is the hypermetric usage, both because these poems contain a notably high incidence of hypermetric verses and because the verses are frequently categorized as irregular. This paper analyses hypermetric composition in Maxims I, Maxims II, and Solomon and Saturn in detail to illustrate the major stylistic features of gnomic composition. It demonstrates that, contrary to the conclusions of some previous scholars, the hypermetric verses basically follow the form for hypermetric composition that can be found in most conservative poems, but with the inherent flexibility of hypermetric metre pushed to a greater extent than in most narrative poems, making for lines that are longer, heavier, and more complex. This alternate style highlights the importance of each individual aphorism and characterizes the solemnity of the poems as a whole. By composing their poems in accordance with the trends of this specialized style, poets may have been marking their composition as separate from narrative poems and encouraging their audience to consider each individual poem in the larger context of Old English wisdom poetry.
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Fulk, R. D. "The origin of the numbered sections in Beowulf and in other Old English poems." Anglo-Saxon England 35 (December 2006): 91–109. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0263675106000056.

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AbstractMost observers now agree that the fitt numbers in Beowulf were not in the scribes' exemplar. A question less frequently addressed is whether the sectional divisions themselves are authorial or whether the poem was divided in the course of manuscript transmission. Several of the divisions in the portion of the poem copied by the second scribe make little narrative sense, while the divisions in the first scribe's work are sufficiently rational. The difference suggests that it is these scribes who are responsible for having introduced the divisions. A consideration of sectional divisions in other poems demonstrates that many of these divisions, too, are unlikely to be authorial.
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Davies, Joshua. "The Complete Old English Poems, translated by Craig Williamson." Translation and Literature 27, no. 1 (March 2018): 80–85. http://dx.doi.org/10.3366/tal.2018.0323.

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Colvin, J. Michael. "Beowulf and Other Old English Poems (review)." Comitatus: A Journal of Medieval and Renaissance Studies 43, no. 1 (2012): 161–62. http://dx.doi.org/10.1353/cjm.2012.0029.

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Dissertations / Theses on the topic "Old English poems"

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Åström, Berit. "The Politics of Tradition : Examining the History of the Old English Poems The Wife's Lament and Wulf and Eadwacer." Doctoral thesis, Umeå University, Modern Languages, 2002. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:umu:diva-60.

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Old English literary studies is a fascinating field of research which spans many various approaches including philology and linguistics as well as literary and cultural theories. The field is characterised by a certain conservatism, what in this thesis is referred to as tradition. This thesis examines the scholarship on The Wife's Lament and Wulf and Eadwacer, projecting its cumbersome affinities with tradition as a conservative force as well as the resistance against it. The investigation focuses mainly on two aspects of scholarly research: the emergence of a professional identity among Anglo-Saxonist scholars and their choice of either a metaphoric or metonymic approach to the material. A final chapter studies the concomitant changes within Old English feminist studies. The thesis also summarises the approaches to points of ambiguity in the poems, and provides a comprehensive bibliography of scholarship on the two texts.

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Kramer, Emily Marie. "Wandering: Dreams, Memory, and Language in Poetry." Ohio University / OhioLINK, 2018. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ohiou1525179650285217.

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Shepherd, Stephen Henry Alexander. "Four Middle English Charlemagne romances : a revaluation of the non-cyclic verse texts and the holograph Sir Ferumbras." Thesis, University of Oxford, 1988. http://ora.ox.ac.uk/objects/uuid:512b868f-d431-45e0-93ea-fc8f6613b816.

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Four Middle English Charlemagne Romances are examined with the intention of disproving conventional claims that English romances of the 'Matter of France' are typically undistinguished. The manuscript of the Ashmole Sir Ferumbras is a holograph; preserved with it, on sheets which originally formed the binding, is a portion of the poem's rough draft. Comparison of the draft with the fair copy reveals something of the romancer's translational and compositional method, and illustrates well his enthusiasm for, and ability occasionally to improve upon, his French source. The fragment of The Song of Roland displays some sensitivity to the heroic essence of its famous French model. The poem also displays, however, a free, sensitive, sometimes eloquent and technically complex, adaptation of notable features of that model. The Sege of Melayne has been recognized for its energy; but extensive studies of the poem appear to have been prevented by an inability to account for the poem's lack of known sources and its use of extraordinary episodes and unusual narrative techniques. Analogues and possible influences do, however, exist; and most reveal the poem's remarkable affinity with propagandistic crusading literature. This affinity goes some way toward explaining, and allowing us to appreciate, the poem's unusual features. Rauf Coilyear is unusually described as a competent and straightforwardly humorous tale similar in spirit to its analogues. A closer look, however, shows the humour to be complicated by the seriousness of a social critique; at times the hero's experiences is far from laughable. There is, in fact, some similarity, both of incident and theme, with the best poems of the 'Gawain-group'. That a comparison with such poems (and, indeed, with 'serious' elements in the other Charlemagne romances) can convincingly be made suggests that our expectations of the poem's literary significance should be revised accordingly.
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Jarc, Jaka. "Rights and obligations : conceptions of social relations viewed through the treatment of possessions in the Biblical poems of Oxford, Bodleian Library MS Junius XI." Thesis, University of Exeter, 2015. http://hdl.handle.net/10871/19349.

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My thesis examines social conceptions framing rights and obligations by reviewing how possessions are used and exchanged in the poems of MS Junius XI. I identify several major additions to the scriptural source material of the poetic narrative where the poems present a unique treatment of possessions in a social environment. These poetic additions often feature novel combinations of events and even entirely new sub-stories. In reviewing these departures I focus specifically on possessions and examine how they frame the rights and obligations within social interactions. Focusing on objects of social exchange enables the discussion of the literary narrative to relate to secondary historical literature on possessions as well as social conceptions. This has not yet been done for the poems of Junius XI. This thesis is divided into four thematic chapters ordered from the most tangible to the most abstract: moveable objects, landed possessions, degrees of possession of people, and abstract notions of authority framing social interactions tied to holding and exchanging possessions. In chapter two moveable possessions will be discussed in relation to social status, cultural identity, exchange and hierarchy. The third chapter will examine the interplay between the allegorical and practical notions of land possession. The fourth chapter will discuss social hierarchy framed as a range of rights and obligations discussing to what degree people are themselves treated as possessions. The discussion will examine what types and levels of relative personal freedom is detectable in the Junius XI poems. The final chapter will amalgamate findings and issues of the previous chapters by examining how the exchange and treatment of possessions impact various types of authority which frame social interactions, hierarchies and values.
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Updegraff, Derek Kramer Johanna Ingrid. ""Fore ðære mærðe mod astige" two new perspectives on the Old English Gifts of men /." Diss., Columbia, Mo. : University of Missouri--Columbia, 2008. http://hdl.handle.net/10355/5623.

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The entire thesis text is included in the research.pdf file; the official abstract appears in the short.pdf file; a non-technical public abstract appears in the public.pdf file. Title from PDF of title page (University of Missouri--Columbia, viewed on October 6, 2009). Thesis advisor: Dr. Johanna Kramer. Vita. Includes bibliographical references.
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Hopkins, Stephen Chase Evans. "Solving the Old English Exodus: An Active Problem Solving Approach to the Poem." Miami University Honors Theses / OhioLINK, 2011. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=muhonors1303488106.

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Turner, Kandy M. (Kandy Morrow). "A Study of "The Rhyming Poem": Text, Interpretation, and Christian Context." Thesis, North Texas State University, 1986. https://digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc331700/.

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The purpose of the research presented here is to discover the central concept of "The Rhyming Poem," an Old English Christian work known only from a 10th-century manuscript, and to establish the poem's natural place in the body of Old English poetry. Existing critical literature shows little agreement about the poem's origin, vocabulary, plot, or first-person narrator, and no single translation has satisfactorily captured a sense of the poem's unity or of the purposeful vision behind it. The examination of text and context here shows that the Old English poet has created a unified vision in which religious teachings are artistically related through imagery and form. He worked in response to a particular set of conditions in early Church history, employing both pagan and Christian details to convey a message of the superiority of Christianity to idol-worship and, as well, of the validity of the Augustinian position on Original Sin over that of the heretical Pelagians.
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Schultz, Kate E. "Unfolding." Ohio : Ohio University, 2008. http://www.ohiolink.edu/etd/view.cgi?ohiou1213242757.

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Burman, Anna-Karin. "An Idea Is a Life Form : An attempt to find evidence of the Conceptual MetaphorTheory by studying the Old English poem Beowulf." Thesis, Högskolan i Halmstad, Sektionen för humaniora (HUM), 2014. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:hh:diva-24265.

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This small study concerns occurrences of metaphor, metonymy and conceptual metaphor in the Old English poem Beowulf. The first 224 lines of Beowulf were searched for non-literal passages. Thefound passages were sorted into the groups conventionalized metaphor, metonymy and innovativemetaphor. The conceptual metaphors were in turn sorted into target domains and source domains and grouped within the domains. These were then compared to Modern English and Modern Swedish metaphors and conceptual metaphors with the help of dictionaries and corpus studies. Beowulf was also looked at as a small corpus. Words which were suspected to be used inmetaphorical senses were searched for in the full text and the results were examined and comparedwith modern language usage. It was found evident that Old English and Modern English, as well as Modern Swedish, have many conceptual metaphors in common both when in comes to experiential metaphors and culturally grounded metaphors.
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Nelson, Nancy Susan. "Heroism and Failure in Anglo-Saxon Poetry: the Ideal and the Real within the Comitatus." Thesis, University of North Texas, 1989. https://digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc332044/.

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This dissertation discusses the complicated relationship (known as the comitatus) of kings and followers as presented in the heroic poetry of the Anglo-Saxons. The anonymous poets of the age celebrated the ideals of their culture but consistently portrayed the real behavior of the characters within their works. Other studies have examined the ideals of the comitatus in general terms while referring to the poetry as a body of work, or they have discussed them in particular terms while referring to one or two poems in detail. This study is both broader and deeper in scope than are the earlier works. In a number of poems I have identified the heroic ideals and examined the poetic treatment of those ideals. In order to establish the necessary background, Chapter I reviews the historical sources, such as Tacitus, Bede, the Anglo-Saxon Chronicle, and the work of modern historians. Chapter II discusses such attributes of the king as wisdom, courage, and generosity. Chapter III examines the role of aristocratic women within the society. Chapter IV describes the proper behavior of followers, primarily their loyalty in return for treasures earlier bestowed. Chapter V discusses perversions and failures of the ideal. The dissertation concludes that, contrary to the view that Anglo-Saxon literature idealized the culture, the poets presented a reasonably realistic picture of their age. Anglo-Saxon heroic poetry celebrates ideals of behavior which, even when they can be attained, are not successful in the real world of political life.
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Books on the topic "Old English poems"

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Old English shorter poems. Cambridge, Mass: Harvard University Press, 2012.

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The old English catalogue poems. Copenhagen: Rosenkilde and Bagger, 1985.

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Beowulf and other Old English poems. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2011.

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Bjork, Robert E., ed. The Old English Poems of Cynewulf. Cambridge, MA: Dumbarton Oaks Medieval Library, Harvard University Press, 2013.

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Old snow: Poems. New York: New Directions Books, 1991.

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Muir, Bernard James. Leođ: Six Old English poems : a handbook. New York: Gordon and Breach, 1989.

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Structures of opposition in Old English poems. Amsterdam: Rodopi, 1989.

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Barajas, Courtney. Old English Ecotheology. NL Amsterdam: Amsterdam University Press, 2021. http://dx.doi.org/10.5117/9789463723824.

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Old English Ecotheology examines the impact of environmental crises on early medieval English theology and poetry. Like their modern counterparts, theologians at the turn of the first millennium understood the interconnectedness of the Earth community, and affirmed the independent subjectivity of other-than-humans. The author argues for the existence of a specific Old English ecotheology, and demonstrates the influence of that theology on contemporaneous poetry. Taking the Exeter Book as a microcosm of the poetic corpus, she explores the impact of early medieval apocalypticism and environmental anxiety on Old English wisdom poems, riddles, elegies, and saints' lives.
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Niles, John D. Old English enigmatic poems and the play of the texts. Turnhout: Brepols, 2006.

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Old English heroic poems and the social life of texts. Turnhout: Brepols, 2006.

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Book chapters on the topic "Old English poems"

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Russom, Geoffrey. "Dating criteria for Old English poems." In Studies in the History of the English Language, 245–66. Berlin, New York: Mouton de Gruyter, 2002. http://dx.doi.org/10.1515/9783110197143.2.245.

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Hill, John M. "On Aesthetics and Quality: An Introduction." In On the Aesthetics of Beowulf and Other Old English Poems, 1–23. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2010. http://dx.doi.org/10.3138/9781442698758-002.

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"ADDITIONAL POEMS." In The Complete Old English Poems. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.9783/9780812293210-012.

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Pearsall, Derek. "Anglo-Saxon religious poems." In Old English and Middle English Poetry, 25–56. Routledge, 2019. http://dx.doi.org/10.4324/9780429200076-2.

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Barajas, Courtney Catherine. "The Web of Creation in Wisdom Poems." In Old English Ecotheology. Nieuwe Prinsengracht 89 1018 VR Amsterdam Nederland: Amsterdam University Press, 2021. http://dx.doi.org/10.5117/9789463723824_ch02.

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Active engagement with the mysteries of creation was an important goal of Old English wisdom poetry; these poems require audience understanding of the interconnectedness of the Earth community. Exploring kinship connections between human and other-than-human beings, they anticipate modern ideas about the importance of exchange within ecosystems. The Order of the World encourages active engagement with the other-than-human as a means of praising the Creator. Maxims I, in turn, serves as an example of one such poetic attempt, imagining a world in which non-human forces act in familiar, rather than entirely threatening, ways. The Order of the World and Maxims I suggests that early medieval English thinkers understood and affirmed the interconnectedness of the Earth community.
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"The Web of Creation in Wisdom Poems." In Old English Ecotheology, 73–100. Amsterdam University Press, 2021. http://dx.doi.org/10.2307/j.ctv1xp9phj.6.

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"THE MINOR POEMS." In The Complete Old English Poems. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.9783/9780812293210-011.

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Wardale, E. E. "Lyrical Poems (continued)." In Chapters on Old English Literature, 46–61. Routledge, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.4324/9781315122830-3.

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"Religious Poems." In "Beowulf" and Other Old English Poems, 190–214. University of Pennsylvania Press, 2011. http://dx.doi.org/10.9783/9780812204407.190.

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Wardale, E. E. "Poems Formerly Ascribed to Cynewulf." In Chapters on Old English Literature, 177–209. Routledge, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.4324/9781315122830-8.

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