The Earl and His Tardy Troops Had Been Merged Into the General Catastrophe

i and 200 men set out on a day-long march through the north of Norway. The english earl led off his troops at noon, but they had already been merged into general catastrophe. i found them travel stained and weary, no marvel, for once they were so slow to my fatal invitation. We breasted the last ridge, i and 200 men, and there, suddenly, emerging into the open, was the bloody valley of senlak beneath us.