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The giant holding rune stones is a representation of Starkather from Tavastland. He is said by Olaus Magnus to be a model for others, as his real strength was "a love of frugality and an aversion to lavish feasting."
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Starkather is an example of "abstemiousness which is so utterly essential in a powerful man, and which ought to be added to this account of mine, as a mirror for our wanton age and one which should be gazed into with deep attention" (Magnus 1996, I:234-5).
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