“These words are strange,” exclaimed Aude the Fair. “God and all His saints and angels forbid that I should live when Roland my love is dead.” Thereupon she lost her colour and fell at the emperor’s feet; he thought her fainting, but she was dead. God have mercy on her soul!
The Traitor Put to Death
Too long it would be to tell of the trial of Ganelon the traitor. Suffice it that he was torn asunder by wild horses, and his name remains in France a byword for all disloyalty and treachery.
FOOTNOTES:
[12] See “Myths and Legends of the Middle Ages,” by H. Guerber.
[13] Marked out for death.
[14] The poetical quotations are from the “Chanson de Roland.”