The roadways all are crowded, whichever way we’re turning:
Gu-drun’s good friends and champions will spare no toil; to win the day they’re burning.
[1459]
“That you may know too truly, as I see already well;
Friends we must lose full many. Howe’er it so befell,
Before the outer gateway already see I waving
The Moorland foeman’s banner; lest they get in, a care must you be having.
[1460]
“Near to the second gateway I see yet other foes:
I saw Lord Ortwin’s banner, as on the breeze it rose.