Giv amid the Thicket of Spears

From B10.21, Giv Puts Kulbad and Nastihan to Flight. It illustrates B10.21.1–10:

B10.21.1
Giv saw afar the dust the riders raised,He drew his sword; his battle-spirit blazed.
B10.21.2
His cry like thunder shook the plain and sky,Till darkness veiled the lion’s brain and eye.
B10.21.3
He swept among the riders like the dust,And turned the earth to lapis with his thrust.
B10.21.4
With khanjar, then with gorz, he struck from high,And rained down iron as he thundered by.
B10.21.5
Beneath Giv’s gopal blows the chiefs gave way,Their hearts grew sick of battle and the fray.
B10.21.6
Giv’s heart laughed in the fury of the fight;The sea itself seemed but a spring in sight.
B10.21.7
The dense ranks closed around him every side,A raging mass of horsemen in their pride.
B10.21.8
The spears like reeds grew thick across the field,Till sun and moon alike from sight were concealed.
B10.21.9
The lion grieved within that spear-thick stand;Blood turned the reed-bed to a wine-red land.
B10.21.10
Giv struck down many riders in the fight,Till all the horsemen wearied of his might.