Turgis

Also known as: Turgis of Turtelus · Family: Sarrazins · Role: count of Turtelose · First appears: Laisses LXXIII–LXXVIII

In Laisses LXXIII–LXXVIII, Turgis goes before Marsilies, his lord. In Laisses XCVII–CII, Anseis strikes him with a spear and kills him, throwing him dead in the dust.

Relationship record

Life events

• Anseis kills Turgis.(Laisses XCVII–CII)
  • With: Anseis
  • “And from the hilt he's thrown him dead in dust.”

Laisses LXXIII–LXXVIII

• lord: Marsilies “Before Marsile among the rest is gone, Says to the King: “Let not dismay be shewn!”

Laisses XCVII–CII

• enemies with Anseis “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.”

Also listed in Sarrazins — Minor Figures

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