After my horses had hasted far over broad flats,
After my van over wide lines and foes had victories,
After my horses had become my horse- ?
After these days I hied over a heath-road towards
The fair burg of Helvetia, bounded round by
Meadows
Here once had I conquered, here once slain and made mark
And dashed blood and drank deeply of treasure and blood
And I thought now here once I had known and loved
For a while,
When
violet | waste of grass (grasswastes? (both?))
Helvett was gone and round me meadows grew and grew
To the graded horizon.
I rested under stars that night,
In empty dark rested, laid out under nothing.
As
In another place, Qarqan, I had heard of this happen[ing],
And the water there was bitter and brackish
And men heard spirits speak to them in the night.
Candidates: Charchan (p 66 &c., bitter water etc. from wikipedia: Qarqan, Cherchen, Shanshan, Jurjan) it's desert tho - "a fortress exists, but not a trace of man" p. 98 of the internet archive version
perhaps: In another place, Qarqan, I had heard of this happening, and the water there was bitter and brackish and men heard spirits speak to them in the night. [But not here.]
many earls
my barons