the foe. He put the
sword and the horn under him. He stretched his right glove toward
heaven, and an unseen hand came and took it away. Dead was the
matchless hero.

Not long after this King Charlemagne with his host came to the
death-strewn Vale of Thorns. Great was the grief of the king and of
all the French, when they found that they had come too late to save
even a single life. Roland was found lying on the grass, his face
turned toward Spain. Charlemagne took him up tenderly in his arms, and
wept.

"Friend Roland," said he, "worthiest of men, bravest of warriors,
noblest of all my knights, what shall I, say when they in France shall
ask news of thee? I shall tell them that thou art dead in Spain. With
great sorrow shall I hold my realm from this time on. Every day I
shall weep and bewail thee, and wish that my life, too, were ended."

Then the French buried their dead on the field where they had fallen.
But the king brought Roland and Oliver and the archbishop to Blaye in
France, and laid them in white marble tombs; and there they lie until
this day in the beautiful little chapel of St. Roman's. And he took
the ivory horn to Bordeaux, and filled it with fine gold, and laid it
on the altar of the church in that city; and there it is still seen by
the pious pilgrims who visit that place.

VOCABULARY OF PROPER NAMES

_Ac ar na' ni a_, the most western province of ancient Greece.
_A chil' les_ (a kil' lez), the ideal hero of the Greeks.
_Ae' gir_ (a' jir), in Norse legends, the ruler of the sea.
_Ag a me' des_ (-dez), one of the architects of the temple at Delphi.
_Ag a mem' non_, king of Mycenae and leader of the Greeks.
_Aix_ (aks), a city of France, favorite residence of Charlemagne.
_A' jax_, a Greek hero second only to Achilles.
_Al ex an' dros_, a name applied to Paris, prince of Troy.
_Al phe' us_, a hunter transformed into a river of Greece.
_Al the' a_, queen of Calydon, mother of Meleager.
_A mil' i as_, a mythical smith of Burgundy.
_And' vae ri_, a dwarf, the keeper of the Rhine treasure.
_An til' o chus_ (-kus), a Greek prince and friend of Achilles.
_A os' tae_, a town in northern Italy.
_Aph ro di' te_, in Greek mythology, the goddess of love.
_A pol' lo_, in Greek mythology, the god of music, poetry, and healing.
_Ar ca' di a_, a mountainous country in Greece.
_Ardennes_ (aer den'), a forest in northern France.
_Ar e thu' sa_, a nymph loved by Alpheus.
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