Abisme

Family: Sarrazins · Role: combatant · First appears: Laisses CXXI–CXXVI

In Laisses CXXI–CXXVI, Abisme is dear to his lord Marsilies. Turpin strikes him and slices his body rib from rib, leaving him dead.

Relationship record

Life events

• Turpin strikes Abisme and kills him.(Laisses CXXI–CXXVI)
  • With: Turpin
  • “So Turpin strikes, spares him not anyway; After that blow, he's worth no penny wage; The carcass he's sliced, rib from rib away, So flings him down dead in an empty place.”

Laisses CXXI–CXXVI

• enemies with Turpin (Turpin kills Abisme.) “So strikes that shield, is wonderfully arrayed, Whereon are stones, amethyst and topaze, Esterminals and carbuncles that blaze; A devil's gift it was, in Val Metase, Who handed it to the admiral Galafes; So Turpin strikes, spares him not anyway; After that blow, he's worth no penny wage; The carcass he's sliced, rib from rib away, So flings him down dead in an empty place.”
• lord: Marsilies “Yet vassalage he's shown, and great folly, So is he dear to th' felon king Marsile;”

Also listed in Sarrazins — Minor Figures

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Extracted from the original text of The Song of Roland. Made with Rho MD.