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Crossbowmen practising at the target

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Their dogs are retrieving the arrows, and were trained to do this without injuring the feathers of the missiles.
From a translation into Italian of 'A History of the Peoples of the North,' by
Olaus Magnus, Archbishop of Upsala. Printed at Venice, 1565.