Sixty men together came
To sea-shore riding horses;
Eleven horsemen had
Steeds of peace, four of them white.
The company could not cross the sea
As they desired, for the flood was too deep,
Frightful the waves’ force, shores high,
streams strong. The men stepped aboard
a wagon then and loaded their mounts
together under the ridge-beam; then it bore
off horses, steeds, and men proud with spears,
wagon across water’s home to land;
no ox drew it, nor asses’ strength
nor sturdy dray, nor did it swim the flood,
nor waded ocean’s bed beneath its guests,
nor stirred the sea, nor flew in air
nor turned back; yet it brought
heroes over burn and their horses too
from the high shore, so that they landed safe
on the other bank, the bold riders
and their mounts, warriors from the wave.