Just above the Norwegian king a man stands at the shore, with a lead in his hand.
According to Olaus Magnus "Such is the immeasurable depth of water off many of the mountainous coasts of Norway that, however long the sounding-lines with which they can fill the largest ship, if a leaden plummet is let down, no bottom may be found" (Magnus 1996, I:107).
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