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Often appears with: the fear of death · battle and tactics · treaties, truces, and peacemaking · supply, logistics, and encampment · succession of grand kaans · sandoval and lugo arrival · no quarter · naval warfare and sea power · natives of new holland · hiding by brook · harald sigurdson death · freeing brigantine from stakes
Usually: narrative (4) · confronting death (3) · detachment (2) · reconciliation (1) · curiosity (1) · lament (1)
“I apprehended the arrow might be poisoned, and paddling out of the reach of their darts (being a calm day), I made a shift to suck the wound, and dress it as well as I could.” Jonathan Swift, Gulliver's Travels into Several Remote Nations of th · vivid
“Forward go we in folk array Without our mail Under blue blades; The helmets shine, No mail have I; On the ships yonder Our garb doth lie.” Snorri Sturluson, The sagas of Olaf Tryggvason and of Harald the Tyran · vivid
“Yet a conflict full as hard was foughten after Tosti the Earl had taken his place under the King's banner. Then both the hosts fell to arraying themselves for the second time, and an exceeding long truce was there in the battle.” Snorri Sturluson, The sagas of Olaf Tryggvason and of Harald the Tyran · observation
At the encampment, Sandoval and Lugo arrive and help defend against land attacks and canoe assaults; the narrator is wounded by an arrow during attempts to free a brigantine from stakes.
has been forced to succumb to the overwhelming numbers of these dogs, for you see how I have fared with my division, and it may have gone worse with his." Upon this Sandoval and Lugo threw themselves on horseback and galloped off for our encampment, where they arrived about the hour of vespers, but we had received intelligence of Cortes' defeat many hours beforehand. They still found us engaged with the Mexicans, wh…
Chinghis Kaan reigns six more years after the battle, then dies from an arrow wound to the knee at a castle called CAAJU, after which Polo turns to Chinghis’ successors and Tartar customs.
THE BATTLE BETWEEN CHINGHIS KAAN AND PRESTER JOHN. And after both sides had rested well those two days, they armed for the fight and engaged in desperate combat; and it was the greatest battle that ever was seen. The numbers that were slain on both sides were very great, but in the end Chinghis Kaan obtained the victory. And in the battle Prester John was slain. And from that time forward, day by day, his kingdom pa…
On the fourth day in New Holland, Gulliver is spotted by naked natives, wounded deeply in the left knee by an arrow, refuses to return, hides by a brook, and prefers captives over living as a Yahoo.
the natives. I continued three days feeding on oysters and limpets, to save my own provisions; and I fortunately found a brook of excellent water, which gave me great relief. On the fourth day, venturing out early a little too far, I saw twenty or thirty natives upon a height not above five hundred yards from me. They were stark naked, men, women, and children, round a fire, as I could discover by the smoke. One of …
Harald Sigurdson chants verses about advancing into battle, then fights fiercely; he is wounded by an arrow in the throat and dies, leading to further truce, renewed battle, and refusal of quarter.
who he was. Rather would I that he should be my slayer than I his.' Then said King Harald Sigurdson: 'A little man was he, but firm in his stirrups.' It is said that King Harald chanted this verse: 'Forward go we in folk array Without our mail Under blue blades; The helmets shine, No mail have I; On the ships yonder Our garb doth lie.' || Now the mail-shirt to Harald was hight 'Emma,' and it was so lon…