When they arrived on the open heath, where Gurth might have had some trouble in finding his road, the thieves guided him straight forward to the top of a little eminence, whence he could see, spread beneath him in the moonlight, the palisades of the lists, the glimmering pavilions pitched at either end, with the pennons which adorned them fluttering in the moonbeams, and from which could be heard the hum of the song with which the sentinels were beguiling their night-watch.
Innen tisztán lehetett látni a bajvívótér kerítését, a két végében fehérlő sátrakat, a holdfényben libegő zászlókat. Még hangfoszlányokat is hozott ide a szél: az őrök zümmögő énekét, amellyel az éjszakai szolgálat hosszú óráit igyekeztek megrövidíteni.