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Literal Translation. 97
Then the mightiest heroes went according to (their) power 1
against their foes. Horrible were the signs that were there,
namely, the shining of the swords and their sparks, a-cleaving
the shields, the white cloud of the bucklers, 2 the smiting to-
gether of the glaives and spears and arrows against the hauberks
and against the helmets, the crash, then, and dashing together
of the bosses beaten by the swords and by the warlike battle-
stones and by the broad green lances in the hands of the valiant
heroes. The air above them was specked with the hurlings
of the diverse weapons. Then there were jets of blood innu-
merably pouring out of the limbs and joints and members of the
heroes, so that they filled the furrows and hollows of the
battlefield. A close combat fought the four royal soldiers,
namely Achilles and Diomede, Hector and Aeneas. They hewed
the hosts between them. Achilles and Diomede were cutting
off the Trojans from the forefront of the battalion of the Greeks
Hector, however, and Aeneas were cutting off the Greeks from
the forefront of the battalion of the Trojans. They wrought
upon the hosts so that many hundreds fell on each of the two
lines of battle. What Hector alone on this day did of mighty
deeds were much to be in tales and stories till Doomsday.
950. Exceeding much is it to count what kings and lords
and champions he laid low; besides whatso fell by his hand of
rabble and common folk, this is innumerable. Cruel, in sooth,
were his deeds, as he went terribly through the crowds of
his foes and left horseloads 3 of the corpses in front of the
Greeks. He made a warlike fold (?) of the bodies of his foes
all around him, so that he had a strong rampart overagainst
the Greeks. On the other side Achilles was cutting down the
hosts, slaying the troops, so that great multitudes of the nobles
of the Trojans fell by him. Moreover Aeneas and Diomede
killed many very valiant men on each of the two sides.
1 darcenn cumaing, also in 1367, lit. pro potestate: cf. Lat. pro
virili parte. - which seem to have heen chalked.
marclach.
3 marttaige seems a scribe's mistake for marclaige, ace. pi. of
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