ABSTRACT
JUST as the famous cities of Italy have set up huge statues to perpetuate men's memory because of their eminent characters or deeds, as Verona did for its Pliny, Mantua for Virgil, and Rome for Hercules, so too German and Götaland cities have not been slow to erect effigies of out standing individuals in public places because of their heroic feats. So Bremen has its Roland, and Skanninge, a very ancient city of the Ostgotar, its Ture Lang, who is quite reasonably depicted with two stones chained to a club and hanging down from his shoulders.1
