NOTE: 94

They put one another to the dagger [and] to the sword, They built fortresses of corpses, They dammed up rivers of blood, They slaughtered one another, all of them, They brought an end to those troops. I shall be a servant unto the cross of Karos! One bearer of news escaped [and] went; He carried the news to the Kurd Baron. He said: "May God destroy your house! We went, we reached the middle of the plain; The rear turned upon the van, The van turned upon the rear, They set [their] teeth into their [own] skin, They put one another to the dagger [and] to the sword, They built fortresses of corpses, They dammed up rivers of blood, They slaughtered one another, all of them, They brought an end to our troops; I, the bearer of news, escaped [and] came." I shall be a servant unto the cross of Karos! Reason did not dawn upon the Kurd Baron; He said: "That is not the doing of the cross of Karos;