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Durendal, also spelled Durandal, is the sword of Roland, a legendary paladin and partially historical officer of Charlemagne in French epic literature. The sword is famous for its hardness and sharpness. Sources including La Chanson de Roland (The Song of Roland) state that it first belonged to the young Charlemagne.
The famous Durandal sword holds a mythical status rivaling King Arthur’s Excalibur. It’s said that for over 1,2500 years, Durandal was embedded in a stone cliff face roughly 100 feet above a ...
The Dullahan (Irish: Dubhlachan; dúlachán, / ˈ d uː l ə ˌ h ɑː n /) is a type of legendary creature in Irish folklore.He is depicted as a headless rider on a black horse, or as a coachman, who carries his own head.
Durandal is also the name of the main antagonist of the game. On 22 July 2017 Michael Eging and Steve Arnold released a novel, The Silver Horn Echoes: A Song of Roland, inspired by the La Chanson de Roland. This work is more closely based on a screenplay written by Michael Eging in 2008, simply known as "Song of Roland" and first optioned to ...
Durandal - a magical sword; Song of Roland (in French: Chanson de Roland) Describes Roland - the chief paladin of Charlemagne; Huon of Bordeaux written c. 1215-1240. Includes very early descriptions of: Morgan le Fay, and son Oberon; Renaud de Montauban - epic hero
Durandal is a novel of historical fiction by Harold Lamb. The first part of a 1931 novel (see below), it was published as a stand-alone book titled simply Durandal in 1981 by Donald M. Grant, Publisher in an edition of 1,875 copies of which 400 were boxed and signed by the artists.
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King David was given the sword of the slain giant Goliath by the priest Ahimelech, to which was attached extra-biblical mythology and traditions. In the Book of Revelation , Jesus is symbolically described wielding a double-edged sword that proceeds out from his mouth, in reference to the "sword of the spirit" which is the "word of truth".