[XVIII.]

THE FINN EPISODE (continued).—THE BANQUET CONTINUES.

“Then the warriors departed to go to their dwellings,

Reaved of their friends, Friesland to visit,

Their homes and high-city. Hengest continued

Biding with Finn the blood-tainted winter,

Wholly unsundered;[1] of fatherland thought he

Though unable to drive the ring-stemmèd vessel

O’er the ways of the waters; the wave-deeps were tossing,

Fought with the wind; winter in ice-bonds