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poetical account of this adventure: but history informs us that Thora was kept prisoner by one of her father's vassals, whose name was Orme or Serpent, and that it was from this man that Regner delivered her, clad in the aforesaid shaggy armour. But he himself chuses to commemorate it in the most poetical manner.”

Vide Chev. Mallet Introd. à l’ Hist. de Dannemarc. pag. 201.