Pinabel

Also known as: Pinabels · Family: Franks · Role: Guenes's friend and peer · First appears: Laisses XXV–XXX

In Laisses XXV–XXX, Pinabel is described as Guenes’s friend and peer. In Laisses CCLXXI–CCLXXVI, when Guenes asks him to save him from death and prison, Pinabel pledges to defend him.

In Laisses CCLXXVII–CCLXXXII, Pinabel challenges Tierri to contest Guenes’s judgment, and both men pledge themselves for combat before Charles. At Aix, they fight a judicial duel, striking and shattering each other’s armor. In Laisses CCLXXXIII–CCLXXXVIII, Tierri kills Pinabel, and the battle is won.

Relationship record

Life events

• Pinabel pledges to defend Guenes from death and imprisonment.(Laisses CCLXXI–CCLXXVI)
  • With: Guenes
  • “Says to him Guenes: “In you my faith is fixed. Save me this day from death, also from prison.” Says Pinabel: “Straightway you'll be delivered.”
• Pinabel challenges Tierri to contest his judgment, and both pledge themselves for combat.(Laisses CCLXXVII–CCLXXXII)
  • With: Tierri Charles
  • “I cry him false, and will the cause contest. His deer-hide glove in the King's hand he's left. Says the Emperour: ‘Good pledges must I get.’”
• Tierri and Pinabel fight a judicial duel, striking and shattering each other's armor.(Laisses CCLXXVII–CCLXXXII · 📍 Aix)
  • With: Tierri
  • “They spur them well, the reins aside they cast, With virtue great, to strike each other, dart; All of their shields shatter and rend apart. Their hauberks tear; the girths asunder start,”
• Tierri kills Pinabel and wins the battle.(Laisses CCLXXXIII–CCLXXXVIII)
  • With: Tierri
  • “And from his head scatters his brains in th' dust; Brandishes him on th' sword, till dead he's flung. Upon that blow is all the battle won.”

Laisses XXV–XXX

• friends with Guenes “And Pinabel, who is my friend and peer,”

Laisses CCLXXI–CCLXXVI

• friends with Guenes “Says to him Guenes: “In you my faith is fixed. Save me this day from death, also from prison.” Says Pinabel: “Straightway you'll be delivered.”

Laisses CCLXXVII–CCLXXXII

• enemies with Tierri “Each the other seeks; horses are out of mind, But with those swords whose hilts with gold are lined Upon those helms of steel they beat and strike:”

Laisses CCLXXXIII–CCLXXXVIII

• enemies with Tierri “Strikes Pinabel on 's helmet brown and rough, To the nose-piece he's broken it and cut, And from his head scatters his brains in th' dust; Brandishes him on th' sword, till dead he's flung.”

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