[87] It is not worth while to say much about mere words. I shall only add that the banner was sometimes called the Gonfanon.
“Li Barons aurent gonfanons
Li chevaliers aurent penons.”
[88] This battle-axe is very amusingly described in the metrical romance of Richard Cœur de Lion:—
“King Richard I understond,
Or he went out of Englond,
Let him make an axe for the nones,
To break therewith the Sarasyns bones.
The head was wrought right wele,
Therein was twenty pounds of steel,
And when he came into Cyprus land,
The ax he took in his hand.
All that he hit he all to-frapped,
The Griffons away fast rapped
Natheless many he cleaved,
And their unthanks there by lived,
And the prison when he came to,
With his ax he smot right thro,
Dores, barres, and iron-chains,
And delivered his men out of pains.”
Line 2197, &c.
[89] Monstrelet. Johnes’ edit. vol. 5. p. 294.
[90] Thus Pandaro the giant in Palmerin of England carried a huge mallet:—but I need not multiply instances.
[91] En loyal amour tout mon cœur, was a favourite motto on the shank of a spur.
[92] Ritterzeit und Ritterwesen, vol. 1. p. 193.
[93] Chronicle of the Cid. p. 46.
[94] Ritterzeit und Ritterwesen, vol. 1. p. 201.