Charles Morris
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first heard Jul 2026
last heard 18 Aug
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Count Sancho knew well that this was his son, and complained bitterly of the ingratitude of the youth, who could leave his father perishing in a prison cell while he rode freely and joyously in the open air, engaged in battle and banquet, and was everywhere admired and praised.
He knew not that the young warrior had been kept in ignorance of his birth.
During this period came that great event in the early history of Spain in which Charlemagne crossed the Pyrenees with a great army and marched upon the city of Saragosa.
It was in the return from this expedition that the dreadful attack took place in which Roland and the rear guard of the army were slain in the pass of Ronceval.
In the Spanish story, it was Bernardo del Carpio who led the victorious hosts, and to whose prowess was due the signal success.
This fierce fight in a mountain pass, in which a valiant band of mountaineers overwhelmed and destroyed the flower of the French army, has been exalted by poetic legend into one of the most stupendous and romantic of events.
Ponderous epic poems have made Rowland their theme, numbers of ballads and romances tell of his exploits, and the far off echoes of his ivory horn still sound through the centuries.
One account tells that he blew his horn so loud and long that the veins of his neck burst in the strain.
Others tell that he split a mountain in twain by a mighty stroke of his sword Durandal
The print of his horse's hooves are shown on the mountain peak where only a flying horse could ever have stood.
In truth, Roland, whose name is barely mentioned in history, rose to be the greatest hero of romance, the choicest and best of the twelve paladins of Charlemagne.
Bernardo del Carpio was similarly celebrated in Spanish song, though he attained no such worldwide fame.
History does not name him at all.
But the ballads of Spain say much of his warlike deeds.
It must suffice here to say that this douty champion marched upon Roland and his men while they were winding through the narrow mountain pass, and as they advanced, the mountaineers swelled their ranks.
As through the glen his spears did gleam, the soldiers from the hills, they swelled his host, as mountain stream receives the roaring rills, they round his banner flocked in scorn of haughty Charlemagne, and thus upon their swords are sworn the faithful sons of the
O Spain.
Roland and his force lay silent in death when the valiant prince led back his army, flushed with victory, and hailed with the plaudits of all the people of the land.
At this moment of his highest triumph the tragedy of his life began.
His old nurse, who had feared before to tell the tale, now made him acquainted with the true story of his birth, telling him that he was the nephew, not the son of the king.
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