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Bulfinch Thomas. Legends of Charlemagne
Legends of Charlemagne
Table of Contents
LEGENDS OF CHARLEMAGNE
LEGENDS OF CHARLEMAGNE
INTRODUCTION
THE PEERS, OR PALADINS
ORLANDO
ROLAND AND FERRAGUS
A ROLAND FOR AN OLIVER
RINALDO
THE TOURNAMENT
THE SIEGE OF ALBRACCA
ADVENTURES OF RINALDO AND ORLANDO
THE INVASION OF FRANCE
THE INVASION OF FRANCE (Continued)
BRADAMANTE AND ROGERO
ASTOLPHO AND THE ENCHANTRESS
THE ORC
ASTOLPHO'S ADVENTURES CONTINUED, AND ISABELLA'S BEGUN
MEDORO
ORLANDO MAD
ZERBINO AND ISABELLA
ASTOLPHO IN ABYSSINIA
THE WAR IN AFRICA
ROGERO AND BRADAMANTE
THE BATTLE OF RONCESVALLES
RINALDO AND BAYARD
DEATH OF RINALDO
HUON OF BORDEAUX
HUON OF BORDEAUX (Continued)
HUON OF BORDEAUX (Continued)
OGIER, THE DANE
OGIER, THE DANE (Continued)
OGIER, THE DANE (Continued)
GLOSSARY
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K
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N
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P
Q
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Thomas Bulfinch
Published by Good Press, 2019
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Rinaldo took his way to the forest of Arden, celebrated for so many adventures. Hardly had he entered it when he met an old man, bending under the weight of years, and learned from him that the forest was infested with a wild horse, untamable, that broke and overturned everything that opposed his career. To attack him, he said, or even to meet him, was certain death. Rinaldo, far from being alarmed, showed the most eager desire to combat the animal. This was the horse Bayard, afterward so famous. He had formerly belonged to Amadis of Gaul. After the death of that hero he had been held under enchantment by the power of a magician, who predicted that, when the time came to break the spell, he should be subdued by a knight of the lineage of Amadis, and not less brave than he.
To win this wonderful horse it was necessary to conquer him by force or skill; for from the moment when he should be thrown down he would become docile and manageable. His habitual resort was a cave on the borders of the forest; but woe be to any one who should approach him, unless gifted with strength and courage more than mortal. Having told this, the old man departed. He was not, in fact, an old man, but Malagigi, the enchanter, cousin of Rinaldo, who, to favor the enterprises of the young knight, had procured for him the horse and armor which he so opportunely found, and now put him in the way to acquire a horse unequalled in the world.
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