Soon they met the Normans with sword and spear, undaunted;
Blows they freely bartered: such bargains cheaply given no more they wanted.
[861]
Everywhere the Hegelings sprang upon the shore.
After a wind from the hill-tops was never seen before
Snow so thickly whirling as spears from hands that threw them:
Though they had done it gladly idle it were to shun the strokes that slew them.
[862]
Thick fly the spears on both sides: the time but slowly goes,
Till they on the beach are standing. Quickly on his foes