Irische Texte : mit ersetzungen und Wterbuch

Literal Translation. 95
876. „What else beheldest thou?" saith Priam.
877. „I beheld thereafter the diversity of the many-hued
raiment, with the beauty of every colour that spread over the
whole sea, It seemed to thee that the whole sea was specked
with many -coloured awnings. I have not seen any colour in
the world that was not there, both gray and blue and red and
green and purple, both black and white and dun and yellow,
both speckled and brown and motley (?) and red.
883. „I saw thereafter the rising of the sea on high in
the semblance of lofty mountains.
885. „I saw each mountain after the other. This is my
estimate, that each mountain and each wave of them would
spread over all the Trojans.
887. „Then there appeared to me the prows of the barks
and the galleys, and the beaks of the vessels, and the heads
of the soldiers.
889. „There appeared to me the garments and dresses and
brooches of the kings and the captains. I beheld the weapons (?)
and the wood and the spear-forest of the lances and the pikes
out of the prows and beaks of the ships.
892. „I beheld the crowd and shed of the hard shields,
with their covering of plates of gold and silver around them,
along the edges of the ships all about. The glittering of the
arms would strike mine eye from me, and the brightness of
the gold and the silver, and the ornaments of the lances and
the ivory-hilted swords and of the green spears with their neck-
rings and of the shields with their plates and their adornments
of gold and silver. The diversity of the many-coloured raiment,
this is the spread sails that were over the ships and the barques.
900. „The great storm which came into the sea so that
the waves were like mountain -peaks, is the wave -roar of the
. . . from the beaks and bows of the barques and from the
blades of the oars and from the sides and the stems of the
ships. This event will be cause of quarrel. Many will be the
dead. Many will be the bodies defiled under hounds and birds
and ravens on each of the two sides. Rough will be this