ABSTRACT
IN another place one may also discover stone panels, high and fairly broad, pressed into the ground by the strength of giants. These have engraved on them the figures of dragons, serpents, and bears, against which no lesser victories were won than against armed men, as I shall make plain below in the book about giants and champions. 1 There are, too, conspicuous stones set into banks by the side of waters, which in the ancient style of writing tell that in those localities famous persons had been killed in various accidents caused by rivers, storms, lightning, and whirlwinds, or had been destroyed by villains lying in wait. Since then the renown given to them has stood through all time. There are also tall stones, by whose appearance and signification the most ancient possessions of provinces, boroughs, fortresses, communities, noblemen, and commoners are peaceably authorized to each one to hold, without laws, lawsuits, or legal settlements: a proof exhibited to all other nations that among these simple people more justice and equity proceed from boundary stones than there is in many volumes of written laws in other places where men consider themselves better educated and civilized.
Figures of animals
Monuments
Boundaries
