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Polacks and Wallachians spurred along, deftly managing their good horses, displaying themselves each according to the custom of his own land. From Kiow came many a knight. Savage Petschenegers were there also, that shot with their bows at the birds that flew by, and drew their arrow-heads strongly to the utmost stretch of the bow. In Austria, by the Danube, is a town that hight Tulna.
"Petschenegers", a Turkish tribe originally dwelling to the north of the Caspian. By conquest they acquired a kingdom extending from the Don to Transylvania. They were feared for their ferociousness and because they continually invaded the surrounding countries, especially Kiev. "Hornbog" is frequently mentioned in the "Thidreksaga", but nothing otherwise is known of him.
From the land of Kiev there rode many a warrior and the savage Petschenegers. With the bow they often shot at the birds which flew there; to the very head they drew the arrows on the bows. By the Danube there lieth in the Austrian land a town that men call Tulna. There she became acquaint with many a foreign custom, the which size had never seen afore.
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