The fields and the highways were covered with steel: the points of steel reflected the rays of the sun; and this steel, so hard, was borne by a people with hearts still harder.

The flash of steel spread terror through-out the streets of the city.

'What steel! alack, what steel!' Such were the bewildered cries the citizens raised.

The firmness of manhood and of youth gave way at sight of the steel; and the steel paralyzed the wisdom of graybeards.

That which I, poor tale-teller, mumbling and toothless, have attempted to depict in a long description, Ogger perceived at one rapid glance, and said to Didier, 'Here is what ye have so anxiously sought:' and whilst uttering these words he fell down almost lifeless." The monk of St.Gall does King Didier and his people wrong.