He easily vaulted over four horses harnessed together, and could raise an armed man from the ground to his head, as he stood erect upon his hand.” Orlando, the famous paladin, who died at Roncesvalles; the hero of Pulci’s Morgante Maggiore , Bojardo’s Orlando Innamorato , and Ariosto’s Orlando Furioso . His sword Durandel is renowned in fiction, and his ivory horn Olivant could be heard eight miles. ↩

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