This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1860 Excerpt: ...very well then, let us fight! While uttering these words, he hurls his javelin in his turn, which, striking Kamelon on his left side and transfixing the hand with which he was endeavoring to draw his sword from its scabbard, nails it to the shoulder of liis horse. The wounded animal becomes restless and rears in its ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1860 Excerpt: ...very well then, let us fight! While uttering these words, he hurls his javelin in his turn, which, striking Kamelon on his left side and transfixing the hand with which he was endeavoring to draw his sword from its scabbard, nails it to the shoulder of liis horse. The wounded animal becomes restless and rears in its agony, endeavoring to throw its rider; the latter, however, remains riveted to it with one of his hands. Kamelon then throws away his shield and endeavors with his left hand to extract the javelin that had pierced his right; but at this very instant Walter pounces upon him, and after having plunged his sword up to the hilt in his body, extracts the javelin himself. The knight and his horse both fall together, one upon the other. The description of Walter's contest with eleven of the twelve champions Who successively assail him for the purpose of robbing him of his treasures is a very long one, and although there is no lack of picturesquencss and variety in its incidents, I yet have thought it proper to abridge it considerably. I shall therefore only translate its most characteristic portions. Of the rest it will be sufficient to give an abstract. The second champion, that presents himself for combat, is a young man by the name of Kimo, a nephew of Kamelon, whoso death he is full of eagerness to revenge. But in spite of his ardor and his bravery he falls after a few moments, and makes room for Gherard, an expert archer, who is also prostrated in his turn, without having inflicted even a scratch of a wound on Walter. The fourth assailant is a Saxon by the name of Egfried. At this point of the story the text offers some remarkable peculiarities, which I now propose to translate. Gunther is not at all discouraged at the sight of the three corpses of...
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