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Title: Frithjof, the viking of Norway : and Roland, the paladin of France
Year: 1899 (1890s)
Authors: 1835-1924 1782-1846
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Publisher: New York London : G. P. Putnam's sons
Contributing Library: New York Public Library
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ofAix, strangers will come from many lands, 256 Roland and ask for thee. And I shall answer, He died in Spain. And lo ! they willall rebel against me—Saxons, Hungari-ans, Bulgars, and numberless other peo-ples. And I shall miss thee more eachday. Ah, truly, France, sweet France !art thou orphaned this day. As for me,so great is my sorrow, I would that Icould die—die here and now, in thesemost fatal passes, that my soul might joinall these loyal souls and my body beburied with theirs. The aged King was very near swoon-ing again; his trembling hands uncon-sciously tore at his hair and beard as, withbroken voice, he spoke a last blessing andfarewell. Friend Roland, and art thou gone in-deed ? Ah me, thy young life is done.May thy soul find joy in Paradise ! The barons looked at one another indismay. They feared lest excessive griefmight unman their aged liege, and feltthat something must be done to rousehim to action of some sort. Geoffrey ofAnjou was the first to speak—one of the
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CHARLES MOURNS OVER ROLANDS BODY. ASTOR, LFNOX /^NDTILDEN F - . - c The Obsequies 257 four who were supporting him in thishour of weakness. Sir King, he said, yield not your soulentirely to grief; much there is that shouldbe looked to. Will you not command thatout of all these dead our own be soughtout and laid in a common tomb ? You are right, replied Charles, partlyrousing himself. Sound your horn ! All was done as Geoffrey suggested.In the army there was no lack of bishops,abbots, priests, and monks, to give thedead absolution and benison. Then greatquantities were burned of incense andof myrrh ; the bodies were interred withevery honour and left forever in thosemountain wilds—for what else could thesorrowing friends have done ? By the Emperors order, the bodies ofRoland, Oliver, and Turpin were laidapart. After the general obsequies, hehad them opened in his presence. Thehearts were wrapped each in a silk clothand placed in white marble caskets. Thebodies were carefully washed w

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