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some say that the king put his war-horn into his mouth with 

 the snake in it ; he had a red-hot iron bar put on the outside 

 of it. The snake recoiled into the mouth of Raud, and down his 

 throat, and ate its way out of his side, and Raud died. The 

 king took thence a large quantity of gold and silver and other 

 loose property, weapons, and many costly things. He had 

 slain or tortured all those of Rand's men who would not be 

 baptized " (Olaf Tryggvason, c. 87). 



" Olaf Sviaking had a son by his queen who was born on 

 the day of St. James' vigil ; when he was baptized the bishop 

 called "him Jacob. The Sviar disliked that name, and said 

 that never had a Sviaking been called Jacob " (St. Olaf, 

 c. 89). 



