Irische Texte : mit ersetzungen und Wterbuch

Literal Translation. H7
old, the Trojans' realm would rule over the men of the earth
from the bounds of Iuenes (Imaus?) unto the isles of the Bri-
tons, _to_ the north-west of the world. Truly (then) there would
he a single king throughout the world's four quarters.
1507. In the morning on the morrow Agamemnon went
forth with his host. Then all the leaders of the Myrmidons
JL went like warriors, furiously, straight on before Troilus. Now .when
the two battalions met, a rough combat was fought there.
Multitudes of each of the two sides fell. They were for a season
in that wise battling on every clay. Troilus used to attack them
every day and hurled slaughter upon them as far as the camp.
And he tookji troop flf the Myrmidons especially, and cut their
hands off, so that they might go to Achilles in his fort.
1515. Now when Achilles saw that many thousands of
his people had fallen, and the crushing that Troilus brought
upon them, he sent to Priam to ask a truce of thirty days, in
order to bury his dead and to heal his wounded. Priam
granted the truce because (he wished) to do the same.
1520. Now when the time of battle arrived the Trojans
come forth out of their city. The Greeks gather on the other
side. Thereat then Troilus comes to the line of battle. He
drove the Greeks about. He hunted the Myrmidons in flight
before him to the camp. So then anger and rage seized Achilles,
seeing every day the rout (coming) towards him. Rough
he deemed the dressing which Troilus would inflict 1 every day
on his people. Sad he was that his good folk and good people
of manslaying, his comrades and his friends, had fallen before his
face in the battle-field. He deemed it a shame, too, that the
tender, beardless lad, whose hair or beard had not grown,
should be cutting and rending the champions of the west of
the world, whose equal, of Adam's seed, there had not been
up to that time. Then he himself went into the battle, and
he went right onward before Troilus. When Troilus saw that
he awaited him. Then they both fight 2 a duel. Troilus hurls
Lit. take.
2 Lit. meet.
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