Note 29 — Front matter
Reading edition
Adam of Bremen. De Situ Daniæ, Præterea relatum est nobis in eodem ponto esse Estland insulam ubi Dracones adorant cum volucribus, quibus etiam vivos litant homines, quos a mercatoribus emunt diligenter omnino probatos, ne maculam in corpore habeant, pro qua refutari dicuntur, a Draconibus. In Sweden the same practice was not less common, where, on urgent occasion, kings and princes were sacrificed, particularly in the times of scarcity and famines. Nay the Swedes boasted once of having immolated five kings in one day.