The round-house was like a shambles ; three were dead inside , another lay in his death agony across the threshold ; and there were Alan and I victorious and unhurt . He came up to me with open arms . `` Come to my arms ! '' he cried , and embraced and kissed me hard upon both cheeks . `` David , '' said he , `` I love you like a brother . And O , man , '' he cried in a kind of ecstasy , `` am I no a bonny fighter ? '' Thereupon he turned to the four enemies , passed his sword clean through each of them , and tumbled them out of doors one after the other . As he did so , he kept humming and singing and whistling to himself , like a man trying to recall an air ; only what HE was trying was to make one . All the while , the flush was in his face , and his eyes were as bright as a five-year-old child 's with a new toy . And presently he sat down upon the table , sword in hand ; the air that he was making all the time began to run a little clearer , and then clearer still ; and then out he burst with a great voice into a Gaelic song . I have translated it here , not in verse -LRB- of which I have no skill -RRB- but at least in the king 's English . He sang it often afterwards , and the thing became popular ; so that I have heard it and had it explained to me , many 's the time . `` This is the song of the sword of Alan ; The smith made it , The fire set it ; Now it shines in the hand of Alan Breck . `` Their eyes were many and bright , Swift were they to behold , Many the hands they guided : The sword was alone . `` The dun deer troop over the hill , They are many , the hill is one ; The dun deer vanish , The hill remains . `` Come to me from the hills of heather , Come from the isles of the sea . O far-beholding eagles , Here is your meat . '' Now this song which he made -LRB- both words and music -RRB- in the hour of our victory , is something less than just to me , who stood beside him in the tussle . Mr. Shuan and five more were either killed outright or thoroughly disabled ; but of these , two fell by my hand , the two that came by the skylight . Four more were hurt , and of that number , one -LRB- and he not the least important -RRB- got his hurt from me .
So that , altogether , I did my fair share both of the killing and the wounding , and might have claimed a place in XXXXX 's verses .
Alan Breck David English Gaelic Shuan Swift bonny fire shambles