Both the young and aged, who on the sea-sands rested,
Were indeed bewildered when to spring on shore the foeman hasted.
[857]
Ludwig and young Hartmut their shields in hand now bore.
For them it had been easier to reach their homes once more
If they had not too freely their rest on the island taken:
They had falsely reckoned that Hettel had now no friends, and was all forsaken.
[858]
Ludwig called out loudly to all his trusty men,
(He thought it child’s play only that he before had seen,)