Anseis

Family: Franks · Role: count · First appears: Laisses LXI–LXVI

Anseis is among the friends who come with Rollant in Laisses LXI–LXVI. In Laisses XCVII–CII, he kills Turgis; in Laisses CXV–CXX, Malquiant kills him: “Dead is that count, he's no more time to run.”

Relationship record

Life events

• Anseis kills Turgis.(Laisses XCVII–CII)
  • With: Turgis
  • “And from the hilt he's thrown him dead in dust.”
• Malquiant kills Anseis.(Laisses CXV–CXX)
  • With: Malquiant
  • “The steel and stock has through his body thrust. Dead is that count, he's no more time to run.”

Laisses LXI–LXVI

• friends with Rollant “Old Anseis, and Sansun too came there;”

Laisses XCVII–CII

• enemies with Turgis “And Anseis has let his charger run; He goes to strike Turgis of Turtelus, The shield he breaks, its golden boss above, The hauberk too, its doubled mail undoes, His good spear's point into the carcass runs, So well he's thrust, clean through the whole steel comes, And from the hilt he's thrown him dead in dust.”

Laisses CXV–CXX

• enemies with Malquiant “And Anseis upon the shield he struck, The scarlat with the blue he sliced it up, Of his hauberk he's torn the folds and cut, The steel and stock has through his body thrust.”

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