I flew first to the one and then to the other couple.

Both pairs of combatants were dead, and yet locked together, as in the death-struggle.

The elder had buried his battle-axe in the body of his foe, and had fallen beneath him as he fell.

The giant had strangled him in his own death-agonies.

The younger had nearly hewn off the left leg of his enemy; and, grappled with in the act, had, while they rolled together on the earth, found for his dagger a passage betwixt the gorget and cuirass of the giant, and stabbed him mortally in the throat.