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“Count Roland smites upon the marble stone;

I cannot tell you how he hewed it and smote;

Yet the blade breaks not nor splinters, though it groans;

Upward to heaven it rebounds from the blow.

When the count sees it never will be broke,

Then to himself right softly he makes moan;

‘Ah, Durandal, fair, hallowed, and devote,

What store of relics lies in thy hilt of gold!‘”

-From The Song of Roland

(Translated by Dorothy Sayers, Viking Penguin, NY, NY, 1957)

I’ve twice been conquered-

       Three times more,

Never again shall humanity purge me,

       And never the Pfhor.

Durandal

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