Bibliotheca Arnamagnæana - 01.06.1981, Síða 256
Appendix I
(cf. pp. 69-70)
Perceval, w. 2456-83
... until those who had come up through the valley saw the great battie,
and they were four hundred knights besides the thousand foot soldiers,
who were advancing. But the others kept very close to the gateway which
was open. Those outside saw their losses, the men who were wounded
and dead, and they advanced towards the gate in total disarray and
disorder. But the others, who maintained good order and kept the ranks
closed, resisted them stoutly within the gateway. But they were few in
number and weak, whereas the others increased in strength because of
the foot soldiers who had followed them, so much so that they could not
withstand them, and withdrew into their castle. Above the gateway there
are archers who shoot into the great crowd and throng, that is heatedly
and wildly intent on entering the castle, so that a motley crowd crashes in
with force. And those inside have thrown down a gate upon them, which
kills and demolishes everything in the path of its fail.
Parcevals saga, 23:7-19
Thereupon the whole main force advanced, who had hidden in the woods
- four hundred knights and two thousand [twenty] footsoldiers. And they
waited there not far from the castle gate which stood open, and they saw
then that their men had suffered losses; they had been killed and cap-
tured. And then they attacked the castle with ranks broken and in disar-
ray, but the others then rode into them with ranks drawn, and then
proceeded to defend themselves manfully and valiandy, and shot at the
troops who were assaulting [those who were assaulting] the castle, and
they killed a large number, until the strength of the others increased as
they closed up ranks. And they could not withstand any longer, because
they were few and oppressed. Some went up into the towers above them,
and shot from there a great number [upon them], and thereupon the
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