Guessing: whether more of a certain stone is above or below ground. A test set by heathen king for a saint — Mythoi

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Guessing: whether more of a certain stone is above or below ground. A test set by heathen king for a saint.

Tests. · Tests of cleverness. · Tests in guessing. · view the constellation · filed as H527

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Irish myth Cross.

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