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There were several names applied to the sea bottom, such as the flör, the maar, the jube, the graef, and the ljoag.

The old fishermen never spoke of things being lost or broken, and they never mentioned the end of anything. To be lost was expressed as having “gone to itself”; broken, “made up”; and the end was called the damp.

These were the chief terms applied to wind and sea, but of course they varied