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, 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 derives from the dwarf Alberich in the Nibelungenlied.
ANSWER: Oberon
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