Then Face-of-god shouted and waved Dale-warden aloft to the Banner of
the Wolf that floated behind and above him, and he cried out: 'As I
have promised so have I done!' And he looked about, and beheld how
valiantly his fellows had been doing; for before him now was a space
of earth with no man standing on his feet thereon, like the swathe of
the mowers of June; and beyond that was the crowd of the Dusky Men
wavering like the tall grass abiding the scythe.
But a minute, and they fell to casting at Face-of-god and his fellows
spears and knives and shields and whatsoever would fly; and a spear
smote him on the breast, but entered not; and a bossed shield fell
over his face withal, and a plummet of sling-lead smote his helm, and
he fell to earth; but leapt up again straightway, and heard as he
arose a great shout close to him, and a shrill cry, and lo! at his
left side Bow-may, her sword in her hand, and the hand red with blood
from a shaft-graze on her wrist, and a white cloth stained with blood
about her neck; and on his right side Wood-wise bearing the banner
and crying the Wolf-whoop; for the whole company was come down from
the slope and stood around him.
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