Grandones

Also known as: Grandonie · Family: Sarrazins · Role: son of Capuel · First appears: Laisses CXV–CXX

In Laisses CXV–CXX, Grandones kills Gerin, Gerer, Berenger and Guiun, then kills Austore. In Laisses CXXI–CXXVI, Rollant strikes Grandones in combat, killing him and his horse.

Relationship record

Life events

• Grandones kills Gerin, Gerer, Berenger, and Guiun.(Laisses CXV–CXX)
  • With: Gerin Gerer Berenger Guiun
  • “Until he flings him dead, on a high rock; His companion Gerer he's slain also, And Berenger, and Guiun of Santone;”
• Grandones kills Austore.(Laisses CXV–CXX)
  • With: Austore
  • “He's flung him dead; great joy the pagans shew.”
• Rollant kills Grandonie in combat.(Laisses CXXI–CXXVI)
  • With: Rollant
  • “Struck him the count, with so great virtue, that To the nose-plate he's all the helmet cracked, Sliced through the nose and mouth and teeth he has, Hauberk close-mailed, and all the whole carcass, Saddle of gold, with plates of silver flanked, And of his horse has deeply scarred the back; He's slain them both, they'll make no more attack:”

Laisses CXV–CXX

• enemies with Gerin “He's gone to strike Gerin with all his force; The scarlat shield from's neck he's broken off, And all his sark thereafter has he torn, The ensign blue clean through his body's gone, Until he flings him dead, on a high rock;”
• enemies with Gerer “His companion Gerer he's slain also,”
• enemies with Berenger “And Berenger, and Guiun of Santone;”
• enemies with Guiun “And Berenger, and Guiun of Santone;”
• enemies with Austore “Next a rich duke he's gone to strike, Austore, That held Valence and the Honour of the Rhone; He's flung him dead; great joy the pagans shew.”

Laisses CXXI–CXXVI

• enemies with Rollant (Rollant kills Grandonie.) “Struck him the count, with so great virtue, that To the nose-plate he's all the helmet cracked, Sliced through the nose and mouth and teeth he has, Hauberk close-mailed, and all the whole carcass, Saddle of gold, with plates of silver flanked, And of his horse has deeply scarred the back; He's slain them both, they'll make no more attack:”

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