Note 099
From Chapter 49 of the Decline & Fall

In this action the famous Rutland, Rolando, Orlando, was slain — cum compluribus aliis. See the truth in Eginhard (c. 9, p. 51 - 56), and the fable in an ingenious Supplement of M. Gaillard (tom. iii. p. 474). The Spaniards are too proud of a victory, which history ascribes to the Gascons, and romance to the Saracens.

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