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Roan Magnus was born August 2009, weighing 4.25 kilograms and measuring 53cm.

Roan (r-r-roo-ahn) means ‘tree with red berries‘ or Rowan Tree.  The Rowan tree provides food for the birds during the long, cold winters.

Magnus, after Farfar, means ‘great‘ in Latin and is a royal name in Norway.  It was a popular name during the Viking Age and meant ‘fighter/strong warrior’ or more correctly ‘house of power/might’.

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