three hours after noon
There was the Wolf and the Elk , the Falcon , the Swan , the Boar , the Bear , and the Green-tree : the Willow-bush , the Gedd , the Water-bank and the Wood-Ousel , the Steer , the Mallard and the Roe-deer : all these were of the Mid-mark . But of the Upper-mark were the Horse and the Spear , and the Shield , and the Daybreak , and the Dale , and the Mountain , and the Brook , and the Weasel , and the Cloud , and the Hart . Of the Nether-mark were the Salmon , and the Lynx , and the Ling worm , the Seal , the Stone , and the Sea-mew ; the Buck-goat , the Apple-tree , the Bull , the Adder , and the Crane . There they stood in the hot sunshine three hours after noon ; and a little wind came out of the west and raised the pictured cloths upon the banner - staves , so that the men could now see the images of the tokens of their Houses and the Fathers of old time . Now was there silence in the ring of men ; but it opened presently and through it came all-armed warriors bearing another bier , and lo , Otter upon it , dead in his war-gear with many a grievous wound upon his body . For men had found him in an ingle of the wall of the Great Roof , where he had been laid yesterday by the Romans when his company and the Bearings with the Wormings made their onset : for the Romans had noted his exceeding valour , and when they had driven off the Goths some of them brought him dead inside their garth , for they would know the name and dignity of so valorous a man . So now they bore him to the mound where Thiodolf lay and set the bier down beside Thiodolf 's , and the two War-dukes of the Markmen lay there together : and when the warriors beheld that sight , they could not forbear , but some groaned aloud , and some wept great tears , and they clashed their swords on their shields and the sound of their sorrow and their praise went up to the summer heavens .