APPENDIX A. p. xx.
I have done injustice to the part assigned to the horse in French legendary tales by omitting mention of it in this place. Charles Louandre (‘Chefs-d’œuvre des conteurs Français,’ Paris, 1873, note to pp. 43–4) calls special attention to it and gives us the name of many horses famous in the old French minstrelsy. There was ‘Valentin,’ the horse of Roland; ‘Tencedor, of Charlemagne;’ ‘Barbamouche, swifter than the swallow;’ and many others. But there is no name to the charger in the graceful ‘Lai de Graélent,’ by Marie de France, whose fidelity is the occasion of his Note. I ought not to have forgotten either, the honours paid him in the Spanish Romances, of which the brave ‘Black Charger of Hernando’ (‘Patrañas’) may serve as the type.