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rafmagn

rafamber
magnpower, quantity
amber power

which everyone uses to mean electricity

Amber turns up because rubbing it was the first way anyone saw static charge. Greek elektron did the same job.

technology

Literal glosses are a translator’s liberty, not a rule. This compound may have frozen centuries ago, with its pieces drifting since. If it is wrong, a correction from an Icelandic speaker is the whole point.

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