Before the day was dawning, well were on their way

They whom the Danish warriors had thought that morn to slay.

Then Wâ-te bade that loudly his war-horn should be sounded;

He was in haste to follow, and hoped erelong to fell them, deeply wounded.

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On foot and on their horses, the men of the Hegeling land

All were seen together, flocking o’er the sand,

To fight the fleeing Normans; never in this they rested.

Ludwig with his followers already far upon their way had hasted.

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