At the last was he come, a hero of wondrous-mighty frame; + 

With lances twain that quivered in his iron grasp he came. + 

And twofold vesture arrayed him; the garb of the Magnete folk + 

To his goodly limbs close-lapping clung; but tossed like a cloak + 

O’er his shoulders a pard’s fell screening from arrowy showers lay. + 

From the glory of his bright tresses nought had been shorn away, + 

But unminished, a rippling splendour, adown his back they shone. + 

With feet unfaltering straightway and swiftly strode he on, + 

And he stood, as one that proveth a spirit of peril uncowed, + 

In the midst of the place of folkmote filled with its thronging crowd. + 