Blue armor of linked steel had Arthur on,

Beneath a robe of honor made of drawn,

Ribbed satin, diapered and purfled deep

With lordly gold and purple; whence did sweep

Two acorn-tufted bangles of fine gold:

And at his thigh a falchion, battle-old

And triple-edged; its rune-stamped scabbard, of

Cordovan leather, baldric'd rich above

With new-cut deer-skin, that, laborious wrought,

And curiously, with slides of gold was fraught,