Legends of the Middle Ages, Narrated With Special Reference to Literature And Art

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The battle won, of Roland's soul Each milder virtue took possession ; To vanquish'd foes he o'er a bowl His heart surrender'd at discretion." Ariosto, Orlando Furioso (Dr. Bumey's tr.).
Aigolandus being slain, and the feud against him thus success- fully ended, Charlemagne carried the war into Navarre, where he was challenged by the giant Ferracute (Ferragus) to meet him in single combat. Although the metrical " Romances " describe Char- lemagne as twenty feet in height, and declare that he sle
...pt in a hall, his bed surrounded by one hundred lighted tapers and one hundred knights with drawn swords, the emperor felt himself no match for the giant, whose personal appearance was as follows : — " So hard he was to-fond [proved].
That no dint of brond 142 LEGENDS OF THE MIDDLE AGES.
No grieved him, I plight.
He had twenty men's strength; And forty feet of length Thilke [each] paynim had ; And four feet in the face Y-meten [measured] on the place ; And fifteen in brede [breadth].
His nose was a foot and more ; His brow as bristles wore ; (He that saw it said) He looked lothliche [loathly], And was swart [black] as pitch ; Of him men might adrede !


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