Nearby on the left, bears are after honey. One bear has climbed the tree and knocked down a beehive, which the other bear is destroying despite the fact that bees are stinging him around his head.

Olaus writes: "The sweetness of honey makes it pay little heed to bee stings, since the severe wounds inflicted by the bees on its face alleviate any excess of blood in its body." The bear in the tree has been hit in the head. People who live in the north often protect the beehives in hollow trees, writes Olaus, and "Since bears are well used to thieving honey, men set a lethal snare, knowing that this animal’s skull is extremely fragile (just as the lion’s is very strong), so that if at any time it receives a blow, the bear perishes. A wooden cudgel, studded all around with iron spikes, is suspended from a high branch. . . ." (Magnus 1998, III:910-1).