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mine, lay them with the ground !" Arthur gripped his sword and 

 smote down two Saxon knights quickly, one after the other, and 

 this emboldened his Britons that they laid on the Saxons mightily 

 till they fell, the Saxons, by hundreds and by thousands. Colgrim 

 fought beside his brother Baldulf, and when he saw Arthur 

 make towards him he would have fled, but the heaps of dead 

 encumbered him. Arthur spake loud : " Here I come, Colgrim, 

 to reckon with thee ! We shall divide this land betwixt us two, 

 and thou shalt loathe thy portion." The act was even with the 

 word ; the king hove his broadsword on high and clove Colgrim 

 through the helm, that the sword stayed at his breast. Then with a 

 swing of his hand towards Baldulf he swept off his head, helmet 

 and all. Then laughed king Arthur, and in game began, " Lie 

 now there, Colgrim, having clomb so high ; Baldulf thy brother 

 lieth by thy side. Take my land for your own — dales, and 

 downs, and subject folk. Ye climbed too high to this hill top ; 

 ye would mount up to heaven, ye must go down to hell. There 

 ye will know many of your kin. And greet me now Hengest, 

 that was fairest of knights, and Ebba and Octa, and more of thy 

 kin, and say they may stay there winter and summer, while we 

 here in land shall pleasantly live ; and here your bones shall lie 

 beside Bath." 



Then Arthur called to Cador the keen, who was earl of Corn- 

 wall, and bade him follow with 5,000 men after Childric, who had 

 fled, " Get to the sea before him, kill the Kaiser, and I will give 

 thee all Dorset." Cador sprang to horse like a spark out of the 

 fire. Over woods and wolds and wildernesses ; over dales and 

 downs and deep waters, Cador, who knew the way, made right for 

 Toteneis. Cador was there before Childiic, and raised the land- 

 folk and armed the churls with clubs and staves, and ensconced 

 them in Childric's ships. Cador, with his men, lay in wait in an 

 inland wood. Childric appeared, coming over the do^vns, making 

 for the ships. Cador cried aloud, " Look alive, boys, brave men 

 and brisk ! Think what Arthur, our princely king, besought us 

 at Bath, before we left him. Lo, where Childric speedeth, to flee 

 to his land and raise a new force to come back again. He 

 thinketh to avenge Colgrim, and Baldulf his brother, who rest at 

 Bath." So Childric and Ms men were cut oS" and destroyed 

 between the army on the one side and the churls on the other. 

 Then Cador took possession of the west country and established a 



