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Description 4-loop Brunnian link — no two loops are directly linked, but all four are collectively linked, and cutting any loop frees all the other loops.
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Redrawn version of illustration in Hermann Brunn's 1892 article "Über Verkettung", by way of Dale Rolfsen's 1976 book Knots and Links (p. 67).

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