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 slaughtering his servants, then approached himself with great wrath, eager to avenge them, wearing a golden crown, and being as thick as a ladder, and having eighteen tails and scions of serpents, which were so sharp that at one blow he could cut a beam in twain. Then first in the combat did Brunswik have great pain, for the dragon smote him mightily, so that ofttimes he fell to the ground on his face. Then the lion defended him and fought strongly with the dragon. Brunswik rose up and went to the aid of the lion; and thus they aided each other faithfully and fought with him all night long from vespers even until noon. Brunswik was now bleeding all over, and fell to the ground from excessive faintness. The lion, seeing that his lord was now fallen, roared loudly with great sorrow and began to fight furiously with the dragon and to rend off the tails round about him, till he had rent off all the scions from the dragon. Brunswik with great anguish sprang up, and they fought valiantly with the dragon, who had now nothing to wound them with; and the lion tore him in pieces, so that streams like brooks flowed from him.