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ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
I wish to express my gratitude to Prof. Thorleifur
Einarsson for supporting me during the beginning of
this study and for his financial support during the field-
work. I thankMr. Thomas Bartholin and Dr. Christian
Hjort for supervising my Ph.D-studies, Mr. Hans Lin-
derson for helpful discussions during the writing of
this paper, Dr. Barbara Wohlfarth for valuable com-
ments on the manuscript, the farmers of Fell, Finn-
bogastaðir and Sauðanes in Iceland for giving me ac-
cess to their driftwood. Special thanks to Prof. Fritz
Schweingruber and Prof. Eugene Vaganov for giving
me access to their unpublished chronologies and Prof.
Dieter Eckstein and Miss Olivia Pignatelli for assist-
ing me during the fieldwork. I also thank the referees,
provided by Jökull, for improving the manuscript.
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