fjord

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I know them, each man understand, Though never I saw him nor with him have spoken; I know this folk, for the fjord is their token One is the fjord in the storm's battle-fray, Another is he when the sunbeams play In midsummer's splendor, And radiant, happy his heart is tender.

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  • The sheer rock walls of the fjord were constantly growing higher. —  096 - Bequest of Evil
  • This fjord was one of those below the great Jostedalsbrae glacier This was the greatest live glacier in Europe. —  040 - Haunted Ocean
  • The reward for the slog was stunning views of Kotor fjord, and the huge mountains looming over the fort. —  TravelPod.com Recent Updates
  • If you do not wish to go all the way to the very end of the fjord, there are numbers of pretty little places where you can break your journey. —  Peeps at Many Lands: Norway
  • Greenland Ice-fjord, drawn by ditto 66. —  The Voyage of the Vega round Asia and Europe, Volume I and Volume II
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  1. Norwegian, from Old Norse fjördhr; see per-2 in Indo-European roots.
 

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