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- ↑ Carving of 'northern god' found BBC NEWS Online, Published Saturday, 11 March 2006. Accessed Online May 14, 2015
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- ↑ Young, William A. (2022), The Ghosts of the Forest: The Lost Mythology of the North, Inter-Celtic, pp. 336 - 339, 431 - 459, ISBN 9781399920223
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