Ragnar Lothbrok: Viking Legend
Dan Snow's History Hit
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The Serpent of Thoror
King Ragnar Lorbrok was a conqueror of vast swathes of Scandinavia. He desired to win the hand of Thoror, the daughter of a powerful Yal. The Yal and his people were suffering greatly as they were being terrorized by a vast, poisonous serpent which had once been all but a little snake. Day and night, the serpent slithered through Thoror's village, waiting silently, snatching victims as it pleased. Cattle, men, women and children, rich and poor, young and old, suffered agonizing deaths.
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