And now what doeth he, who but now bade me come forth, vaunting himself with mighty praise, and chafing others with his arrogant words, and scattering harsh taunts, as though in his one body he enclosed twelve lives ?" Hjalte answered: "Though I have but scant help, I am not far off.

Even here, where I stand, there is need of aid, and nowhere is a force or a chosen band of warriors ready for battle wanted more.

Already the hard edges and the spear-points have cleft my shield in splinters, and the ravening steel has rent and devoured its portions bit by bit in the battle.

The first of these things testifies to and avows itself.

Seeing is better than telling, eyesight faithfuller than hearing.