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 another nine days and nights they found themselves in great darkness between mountains. When he approached one mountain, he saw from afar how the mountain gleamed like fire. Then, drawing his sword and sailing under it, he gave it a mighty blow, so that he hewed off a piece about the bigness of a man’s head. That mountain was a very pure carbuncle, and the light therefrom guided them till they issued from those mountains and dark places. And when he approached the castle, he marvelled how divers sea creatures were around it.

The castle was very beautiful, but there were sea creatures everywhere upon it. Then said Brunswik to himself: “Betide evil or good, I must enter that castle, if I am to suffer I know not what.” And when he entered the castle, again did great fear take possession of him, when he saw how the king of the city, Olibrius, had eyes before and behind, and eighteen fingers on each hand, and on each foot eighteen toes. And around him he saw a multitude of divers people, some with one eye, others with one foot, many with horns over their eyes, others with two heads,