Shining through the lofty chestnuts,

All illumined by the moonlight.

Yonder rose up from the river

By the shore a bank of gravel,

Bare and barren; it was often

Flooded over by the river.

Out of fun the country people

Called it [field of Fridolinus].

Thither now the frail boat drifted;

There it halted on the shelving