This is a built-in link variable. It indicates the first endpoint (turtle) of a link. For directed links this will always be the source for undirected links it will always be the turtle with the lower who number. You cannot set end1.
crt 2 ask turtle 0 [ create-link-to turtle 1 ] ask links [ show end1 ] ;; shows turtle 0
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