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.