Besgun

Family: Franks · Role: master-cook · First appears: Laisses CXXXIII–CXXXVIII

Life events

• Charles orders Guenes seized and guarded for treachery, and Guenes is chained and held.(Laisses CXXXIII–CXXXVIII)
  • With: Charles Guenes
  • “The King has bid them seize that county Guene, And charged with him the scullions of his train; The master-cook he's called, Besgun by name: ‘Guard me him well, his felony is plain, Who in my house vile treachery has made.’ He holds him, and a hundred others takes From the kitchen, both good and evil knaves; Then Guenes beard and both his cheeks they shaved, And four blows each with their closed fists they gave, They trounced him well with cudgels and with staves, And on his neck they clasped an iron chain; So like a bear enchained they held him safe, On a pack-mule they set him in his shame: Kept him till Charles should call for him again.”

Laisses CXXXIII–CXXXVIII

• lord: Charles (Charles orders Besgun to guard Guenes.) “The King has bid them seize that county Guene, And charged with him the scullions of his train; The master-cook he's called, Besgun by name: ‘Guard me him well, his felony is plain, Who in my house vile treachery has made.’”

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