CXXIX.

Whoever could this fight describe? Rollánd And Olivier vie with Turpin in skill And glorious deeds--The slain can counted be; In charts and briefs their numbers are enrolled: More than four thousand fell, so says the Geste. Four times the French arms were victorious, But on the fifth, a cruel fate they met; The knights of France found there a grave, except Three more whose lives God saved; yet those brave knights, Ere falling, their last breath will dearly sell. Aoi.

THE HORN.