“Moreover, we of fighters have not here enough

That we in aught can harm them, e’en should we now set off:

Scorn me not,” said Fru-te, “and to my words give heeding;

What more to say is needful? Your foes you cannot reach, howe’er you’re speeding.

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“Bid that now the wounded upon the ships be laid;

Then on the field of battle let search for the dead be made,

And bid that they be buried upon this strand forsaken,

So friends may rest together; this good at least from them should not be taken.”

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