Irische Texte : mit ersetzungen und Wterbuch

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1338. So that on night Nestor gathered together the kings
and the captains into one assembly to counsel them to get
one king over them. And it was Agamemnon in particular
whom he urged them to get, forasmuch as the host had
great prosperity and good fortune there while Agamemnon had
been their king.
1343. In the morning on the morrow the Trojans marched
to the battle. They were well-nigh mad and infuriated, and
they shook the earth with the greatness of the vehemence (?)
and the boiling of the anger which the heroes brought with
them into the battle. Then from the other side marched
Agamemnon with the battalion of the Greeks around him. Fell,
then, was the fight which the soldiers fought. Each of them
had harm for the other. They yearned to pour forth the blood
without . . . That conflict was a rout on this side and on that.
1351. Now when noon had come, Troilus went towards
the fight and gave a goal that was not unterrible, past the
champions of the Trojans, in such wise that he was biding
between them and their foes; and he began hewing at the
heroes and severing the companies, and slaying the hosts from
the breast of his own battalion, and he delivered a thunder-
feat upon them, and drove them together before him to the
camp as a hawk drives little birds. 1 And he stayed not from
them, so that many thousands of them fell by him before the
gates of the camp were shut behind them. Of the unreckonable
things of this story was what fell of the heroes of Greece here
by the rough play of Troilus.
1360. On the morrow betimes 2 forth from their city came
outside the Trojans to the battle. Then Agamemnon comes on
the other side with the heroes of the Greeks around him. A
bloody, angry, deadly, venomous fight, full of mournful wailing,
is fought on each side of the combat. Vast slaughter was in-
flicted on each of the two sides. The champions of valour of
1 Cf. Iliad XVI 582, 583, XVII 757.
2 Lit. in the early part of the day.
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