Durendal

Durendal ( German Durandart ( e), Italian Durindana ) is the name of the allegedly miraculous sword of Roland in Old French Chanson de Roland. It was the legend forged by Wieland ( Old-French Guallant ).

Legend

Charlemagne is presented by an angel, a sword that was to bear in the fight against the pagans of the bravest follower. This sword presented to Karl his paladin Roland. In the Song of Roland the hilt of the sword is to contain a tooth of the Apostle Peter, blood of Saint Basil, and a hair of Saint Denis, and a piece of the robe of the Virgin Mary. In order to protect it from the grasp of the invading Saracens, Roland tried to destroy the sword, after he had beaten a breach in the mountains, the so-called Rolandsbresche in the Pyrenees.

According to the Song of Roland, he threw himself in the face of anticipated defeat against the Moors in his sword or put forward, after he had tried to destroy it on a rock.

According to another legend, he threw the gun away until they got stuck in the rocks of Rocamadour (Lot). There visitors can visit.

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