Chivalry -- Fiction; Knights and knighthood -- Fiction; Romances, Spanish -- Translations into English
When the Emperor saw Gasquilan lying for dead, and Amadis on foot,
he called out to Floyan to advance and help the King of Sweden. Don
Quadragante seeing them come on, cried out, Attack them, Sir, and leave
not a man of them alive! Both sides then hastened to encounter; but
Gandalin, who saw his master on foot, and was fearful for his safety,
rode the foremost to help him, and seeing Floyan in the front of his
battle encountered him so rudely, that Floyan fell, and he himself lost
his stirrups, but kept his seat. Both parties now strove to horse their
Knights, and Quadragante dismounted four Romans before he broke his
lance, and the horse of the first was given by Angriote to Amadis; mean
time the Romans carried Gasquilan, who was now recovering his senses,
out of the field. Gavarte of the Perilous Vale, and Landin followed
the path of Quadragante; these Knights were used to such business,
and were before the host; but when the two hosts encountered, then was
there such uproar that none could understand another, and there might
you behold horses without riders, and the riders, some slain, others
wounded, and trampled under foot. Floyan, who was now horsed again, and
desirous both to gain honour and to revenge the death of Salustanquidio
his kinsman, made at Angriote, whom he saw doing great deeds in arms,
and struck him in the side so rudely, that he well nigh dismounted him;
the blow broke his lance; then drew he his sword, and dealt a blow to
Enil, which made the fire flash from his helmet, and rode on between
them, so that neither could strike him in requital, and they wondered
at his courage and great prowess; and before he joined his own people,
he met a Knight of Ireland, one of the servants of Don Quadragante,
and cut him on the shoulders to the flesh and bone, so that he was
constrained to quit the field.
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