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English: On Alf, the Defender of Chastity.

Alf, a suitor to the princess Alvilda kills two serpents who are guarding her chastity. To vex them he wears a bloody hide over his armour. One snake (a vipera) is killed with a red-hot piece of iron he holds with a pair of tongs. The other (an anguis) is killed with a sword.

From Olaus Magnus History of 1555.
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