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"They are white, golden-haired, terrible in the fierceness of their eyes, greedy of quarrels, bragging and insolent.

A band of strangers could not resist one of them in a brawl, assisted by his strong blue-eyed wife, especially when she begins, gnashing her teeth, her neck swollen, brandishing her vast and snowy arms, and kicking with her heels at the same time, to deliver her fisticuffs, like bolts from the twisted strings of a catapult.

The voices of many are threatening and formidable.

They are quick to anger, but quickly appeased.