/// Epic poem “Orlando the Furious”
has some details that I would call spurious.
They include (in Italian)
a half eagle, half stallion:
hippogryff, and a sea monster. Curious.
/// Orlando’s a brave Christian knight,
who for Charlemagne wages a fight
against Saracens, yet
this great cause he’ll forget,
for a pagan he loved at first sight.
/// She’s the Princess Angelica, and
several others compete for her hand.
She won’t Orlando wed.
Later, she’s to be fed
to the sea serpent, Orc, as was planned.
/// A bold Saracen knight loves her, too.
It is he, Ruggiero, who flew
eagle-horseback to where
she’d been chained naked there.
(It’s that chivalrous thing that knights do.)
/// Epic poem “Orlando the Furious”
has some details that I would call spurious.
They include (in Italian)
a half eagle, half stallion:
hippogryff, and a sea monster. Curious.
/// Orlando’s a brave Christian knight,
who for Charlemagne wages a fight
against Saracens, yet
this great cause he’ll forget,
for a pagan he loved at first sight.
/// She’s the Princess Angelica, and
several others compete for her hand.
She won’t Orlando wed.
Later, she’s to be fed
to the sea serpent, Orc, as was planned.
/// A bold Saracen knight loves her, too.
It is he, Ruggiero, who flew
eagle-horseback to where
she’d been chained naked there.
(It’s that chivalrous thing that knights do.)