The land-marches nigh,
The tryst to keep with Harald—
Windy was the weather off the land.’
¶ When the Kings were come face to face the one with other forthwith betwixt them was broached ye matter of peace; and no sooner was this opened than many men made plaint of the harm they had suffered through war-fare, rapine, and the slaying of men. And long talked they about this, as is said hereafter:
‘The yeomen shrewd
Such words do say aloud
That when the men meet,
An’ angered are mostly
The others. Far seemeth
Concord to lie from men