294 Destruction of the Round Table.
say to this ? " The King answered, — " What dost thou say?" Galwan said, — "I do not consider Borz vanquished or as a knight felled to the ground, for the straps of his saddle broke and he fell down, for he had nothing to hold on. But the other knight is indeed powerful and mighty. Were it not that we have left Lane ill in Camelot, I certainly would have thought it was Lane." The King laughed, and said, — " That knight began well, and I trust he will finish even better. It may be that, if the saddle-straps had not been broken till now, he would have brought him to the ground together with his horse, or he might have pierced him through and his armour would not have helped him." As the spear was broken, Lang drew his sword, and began to play about him right and left and to kill knights like lambs, and to cut the heads (necks) of the horses like pumpkins and to achieve acts of miraculous bravery in the field, so that all were astounded . . .
M. Gaster.
