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a1 After that each struck his horse with his spurs, and they
rode at each other. When they met, Markauld thrust his 132
spear into Partalopi’s saddlebow, and the shaft broke to
pieces, but Partalopi thrust his spear into Markauld’s thigh.
The horses ran past each other. Then Partalopi grasped the 135
spear and drew it thus out to the point. Then Markauld
spoke: “That I see, that you are a good knight, and I wish
to ask you to take another more trusty spear.” Partalopi 138
answered: “Take what you like, because there seems to me
no test in riding against you when you have no spear.” Now
Markauld took another spear, and they now rode at each ui
other. Everything went the same way as the time before.
When the Bretons saw this, that their chieftain was
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b1 After that they rode at each other fiercely, and each then
thrust his spear at the other. The spear of the king of the
Bretons broke to pieces, but Partalopi thrust through the
handle of the shield of the king of the Bretons and through
his thigh. Then Mannholld, king of the Bretons, spoke:
“That I see, that you are an excellent fellow,” he said,
“and therefore I wish to ask you that you permit me to
take another spear.” “I am certainly willing,” he said,
“because there seems to me no necessity or fame in riding
out against you when you have no spear. I do not think
myself to be the better knight, though I gain victory from
you, as long as we are not both equally well equipped.”
Now Mannholld, king of the Bretons, took another very
sharp spear. After that they rode at each other a second
time. For Partalopi4 then it still turned out as before—
that the king of the Bretons broke his spear, but Partalopi
thrust through that thigh of the king which before was
uninjured, and still kept hold of his spear. They, the Bretons,
saw this, that their dealings would not go as they wished
or would choose, because their chieftain had reeeived two
wounds, and each a big one, but Partalopi was unwounded.
After that six of the bravest knights from the host of
4 Partalope (nominative) is here translated as if it were the
dative, the text would be better if the name were left out here.