Question
In a poem, this man cruelly tries to kill a horse after its owner murders this man’s nephew in a brawl over a chess game. For 10 points each:
[10h] Name this man who makes good on several drunken boasts to his rival Hugo in a poem titled for his “Voyage.” At the end of a long poem, this man pulls his beard and laments, “how full of toil is my life!” upon being visited in his room by the angel Gabriel.
ANSWER: Charlemagne [or Carolus Magnus; or Charles I; prompt on Charles] (The first poem is The Four Sons of Aymon.)
[10e] Charlemagne and his men are valorized in medieval geste du roi (“zhest doo rwah”), such as this 11th-century poem whose title character wields the sword Durendal and an oliphant horn.
ANSWER: The Song of Roland [or La Chanson de Roland]
[10m] In a geste du roi, this character helps Huon of Bordeaux atone for killing Charlemagne’s son. Christoph Martin Wieland wrote an epic about this character, who in a play has a jealous dispute with his wife over an Indian boy.
ANSWER: Oberon
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