Charles Morris
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If slain in the battle his body was never found.
Wounded and despairing he may have been slain in flight or been drowned in the stream.
It was afterwards said that his war horse, its golden saddle rich with rubies, was found riderless beside the stream, and that nearby lay a royal crown and mantle, and a sandal embroidered with pearls and emeralds.
But all we can safely say is that Roderick had vanished, his army was dispersed, and Spain was the prize of Tariq and the Moors, for resistance was quickly at an end, and they went on from victory to victory until the country was nearly all in their hands.
End of Chapter four
Chapter five of Historical Tales Volume seven Spanish by Charles Morris.
This Libervox recording is in the public domain.
Chapter five
The table of Solomon
We have told how King Rodrigue, when he invaded the enchanted palace of Toledo, found in its empty chambers a single treasure, the famous table of Solomon.
But this was a treasure worth a king's ransom, a marvellous talisman, so splendid, so beautiful, so brilliant, that the chroniclers can scarce find words fitly to describe its richness and value.
Some say that it was made of pure gold, richly inlaid with precious stones.
Others say that it was a mosaic of gold and silver, burnished yellow and gleaming white, ornamented with three rows of priceless jewels, one being of large pearls, one of costly rubies, and a third of gleaming emeralds.
Other writers say that its top was made of a single emerald, a talisman revealing the fates in its lucid depths.
Most writers say that it stood upon three hundred and sixty five feet, each made of a single emerald, though still another writer declares that it had not a foot to stand on.
Evidently none of these worthy chroniclers had seen the jewelled table except in the eye of fancy, which gave it what shape and form best fitted its far famed splendor.
They varied equally in their history of the talisman.
A mildly drawn story says that it first came from Jerusalem to Rome, that it fell into the hands of the Goths when they sacked the city of the Caesars, and that some of them brought it into Spain.
But there was a story more in accordance with the Arabian love of the marvellous, which stated that the table was the work of the Jinn or Jeni, the mighty spirits of the air, whom the wise King Solomon had subdued and who obeyed his commands.
After Solomon's time it was kept among the holy treasures of the temple, and became one of the richest spoils of the Romans when they captured and sacked Jerusalem.
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