11) Ferrau (in Orlando Furioso). Dictionary of Phrase and Fable. 1898
...Ferraute, Fer racute, or Fer ragus, a Saracen, son of Lanfu sa. He dropped his helmet in the river, and vowed he would never wear another till he had won that worn...
12) Flamberge or Floberge. Dictionary of Phrase and Fable. 1898
...The sword which Maugis took from Anthenor, the Saracen admiral, when he came to attack the castle of Oriande la Fee. It was made by Weyland, the Vulcan, of the Northern...
13) 3. The Tournament. Vol. IV: Legends of Charlemagne. Bulfinch, Thomas. 1913.
Age of Fable
...to them, besides his paladins and vassals of the crown, all strangers, Christian or Saracen, then sojourning at Paris. Among the guests were King Grandonio, from...
14) sarcenet. The American HeritageŽ Dictionary of the English Language: Fourth
Edition. 2000.
...Middle English sarsenet, from Anglo-Norman sarzinett, perhaps from Old French Saracin, Saracen, from Late Latin Saracnus. See Saracen....
15) 35523. Lessing, Doris. The Columbia World of Quotations. 1996
...NUMBER:35523 QUOTATION:The centuries-long wars with the Saracen, when everything of the East was the enemy, and the subsequent, now over, era of Western imperialism,...
16) Sobri'no (in Orlando Furioso). Dictionary of Phrase and Fable. 1898
...One of the most valiant of the Saracen army. He is called the Sage. He was aged, and counselled Ag ramant to give up the war and return home, or, if he rejected that...
17) Part II: The Prelude of the Great Battle. Roncesvalles. 1909-14. The Song
of Roland. The Harvard Classics
...to a mountain height, Glanced through the valley that stretched to right; He saw advancing the Saracen men, And thus to Roland he spake agen: What sights and sounds...
18) 16819. Disraeli, Benjamin. The Columbia World of Quotations. 1996
...QUOTATION:It was not reason that besieged Troy; it was not reason that sent forth the Saracen from the desert to conquer the world; that inspired the crusades; that...
19) 16821. Disraeli, Benjamin. The Columbia World of Quotations. 1996
...QUOTATION:It was not reason that besieged Troy; it was not reason that sent forth the Saracen from the desert to conquer the world; that inspired the crusades; that...
20) Gleichen (The Count de). Dictionary of Phrase and Fable. 1898
...his own country. He joined a crusade, and, being wounded, was attended so diligently by a Saracen princess that he married her also. 1...
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