ABSTRACT

Peter Pithous [i.e. Pierre Pithou] in the manuscript of the fables of Phaedrus written in the tenth century, has an appendix in prose which Berger de Xivrey has published under the title De monstris et belluis liber in his Traditions tératologiques (Paris, 1836). The second chapter of the first section (p.12), runs [gives Latin text only, for which see Chambers 1959:4]:

Of Huiglaucus, the king of the Getae, of wonderful size. And they are of wonderful size, as the king Huiglaucus, who ruled the Getae and was killed by the Franks. Whom no horse could carry from his twelfth year. Whose bones are kept in an island of the river Rhine (Ms Reno), where it issues into the ocean, and have been shown as a miracle for a long time to visitors.