Then made Face-of-
god no delay, but ran down the bent at once, and at the break of it
came upon Bow-may standing upright and sword in hand; and as he
passed, she joined herself to him, and said: 'What new tidings now,
Gold-mane?'
'Tidings of battle!' he cried; 'tidings of victory! Folk-might hath
fallen on, and the Dusky Men run hastily to meet him. Hark, hark!'
For as he spoke came a great noise of horns, and Bow-may said: 'What
horn is that blowing?'
He stayed not, but shouted aloud: 'For the Face, for the Face! Now
will we fall upon their backs!'
Therewith was he come to his company, and he cried out to them:
'Heard ye the horn, heard ye the horn? Now follow me into the
Market-place; much is yet to do!'
Even therewith came the sound of other horns, and all men were silent
a moment, and then shouted all together, for the Wood-landers knew it
for the horn of the Shepherds coming on by the eastward way.
But Face-of-god waved his sword aloft and set on at once, and they
followed and gat them through the courts of the houses and their
passages into the Market-place. There they found more room than they
looked to find; for the foemen had drawn away on the left hand toward
the battle of Folk-might, and on the right hand toward the battle of
the Steer; and great was the noise and cry that came thence.
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