But when he had drunk and washed hands and face he came back again, and hardened his heart to do what he must needs do.

He took up the body of the Lady and with grief that may not be told of, he drew it into the cave, and cut boughs of trees and laid them over her face and all her body, and then took great stones from the scree at that other end of the little plain, and heaped them upon her till she was utterly hidden by them.

Then he came out on to the green place and looked on the body of his foe, and said to himself that all must be decent and in order about the place whereas lay his love.
And he came and stood over the body and said: "I have naught to do to hate him now: if he hated me, it was but for a little while, and he knew naught of me.

So let his bones be covered up from the wolf and the kite.

Yet shall they not lie alongside of her.