Irische Texte : mit ersetzungen und Wterbuch

104 Th e Destruction of Troy.
about him, and began to go to the battle-line, then did An-
dromache utter her three screams on high, so that horror and
fear thereat seized the folk of the whole of Troy, and she fared
forward to Priam and related her dream to him and declared
to him that he should constrain Hector that day not to enter
the battle. Then, too, his little son was brought before the
battle -soldier, so that this held him fast. When Hector was
held fast, Priam pressed on the hosts of the city to go boldly
to the battle. This is done.
1146. As to Agamemnon and Achilles and Diomede and
Locrian Ajax, when they saw that Hector had not entered the
fight they made nothing of the (Trojan) hosts. They were
furious in smiting the hosts, and they took not their hands
from them until they had forced them back into the city, and
shut it upon them.
1151. Now when the savage wild-beast and the glaring
fire-brand with which the west of the world was flaming, to
wit, Hector, heard the exceeding great noise of the Greeks and
the great danger in which the Trojans were biding, he gives
a furious, lively goal towards the conflict, so that multitudes
of the heroes of the Greeks fell by him. Idomeneus, in sooth,
fell by him in the first line of battle. Then he slew Iphinous,
a hero- soldier of the Greeks. He slew Leonteus moreover, at
the first rush. Then he wounded Sthenelus in his thigh. So
he . . . throughout the host in that wise and plied his rage
upon them like a stag in heat(?). Hector rested not from them
in that wise till [the field] was full of bodies and of heads from
one end to another of the battle. So it is that not more
numerous are sheaves of oats in autumn after a great reaping-
party, or icicles under feet of kings' herds in a ford between
two territories, than are the heads and feet and bodies and
waists cleft by the edge of his sword (or) point of spear and
cut by the swordlets and spears that were fitted out of his
own hauberk and the hauberks of his horses.
1167. Now when Achilles saw that the chief manslayers
of the whole of Greece had fallen by Hector, and (beheld) the