Quod cum videret Lilla minister regi amicissimus, non habens scutum ad manum quo regem a nece defenderet, mox interposuit corpus suum ante ictum pungentis: sed tanta vi hostis ferrum infixit, ut per corpus militis occisi etiam regem vulneraret.
Which when Lilla the kings most loyal thane saw (having no buckler ready at hand, wherewith he might defend the king from present death), he stept straightway with his own body between the king and the stroke of the piercing sword; but the murderer struck his sword so far and fiercely, that through the body of this soldier now quite slain he even wounded the king himself.
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