Irische Texte : mit ersetzungen und Wterbuch

Literal Translation. 115
to fight 1
, I will put my people to work along with you, so -
that thou uiayst not go with a complete refusal." Agamemnon
fares home thankful (and) joyous.
1457. Now when the time of the battle came the Trojans
arrayed their host. The Greeks also, on the other side, set
their battalion in order. Then Achilles began deligently to
encourage the Myrmidons, and he sent them in their knot of
battle to fight against the Trojans and against Troilus; and
he said to them also that they should bring him Troilus' head.
A conflict awful, unheard-of, arises 2 between the two ends (?)
of the battalions. The Myrmidons became mad. The earth almost
broke under their feet with the boiling of the wrath that
abode in their breasts. They deemed it much that they would
not get their fill of fighting and battle even till the end of
the world. They deemed it much that with every blow they
should cast the men down to the ground. They deemed it
much that they should hunt the Trojans as far as their city.
They deemed it much also that they should breach and shatter
the walls of Troy. Whatever (?) were the strength of the men £**
that happened to be against them, (those men) would not have .
endured them had not Troilus helped. 3
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1471. Now when Troilus beheld the great fury and the
vehemence and the valour (?) that the Myrmidons displayed, and
when they had cast their spears on himself, fury and anger
filled him; and out of his forehead arose the hero's light, until
it was as long as the nose; and his two eyes came out of his
head till they were longer than an artemli 4,
to the outside of
his head. Alike were his hair and the branches of a haw-
thorn. He attacked the hosts in that wise, like a lion active,
full of rending fury(?), who runs to ... a herd of boars. So
he slew thrice fifty champions of valour of the Greeks and
1 Lit. 'if it is battling that ye do.'
2 Lit. unknown, grows.
3 This is a mere guess. The original seems corrupt.
4 said to be 'a fist with the thumb extended', ,a measure of six
inches,' Laws II 238, 240 n. airtem s. ferdorn, O'Dav. 53, s. v. Cletine.
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