turned toward Spain. Charlemagne took him up tenderly in his arms, and
wept.

"Friend Roland," said he, "worthiest of men, bravest of warriors,
noblest of all my knights, what shall I, say when they in France shall
ask news of thee? I shall tell them that thou art dead in Spain. With
great sorrow shall I hold my realm from this time on. Every day I
shall weep and bewail thee, and wish that my life, too, were ended."

Then the French buried their dead on the field where they had fallen.
But the king brought Roland and Oliver and the archbishop to Blaye in
France, and laid them in white marble tombs; and there they lie until
this day in the beautiful little chapel of St. Roman's. And he took
the ivory horn to Bordeaux, and filled it with fine gold, and laid it
on the altar of the church in that city; and there it is still seen by
the pious pilgrims who visit that place.




VOCABULARY OF PROPER NAMES

_Ac ar nā' nĭ a_, the most western province of ancient Greece.
_A chĭl' lēs_ (á kĭl' lēz), the ideal hero of the Greeks.
_Ae' gir_ (a' jÄ­r), in Norse legends, the ruler of the sea.
_Ag a mē' dēs_ (-dēz), one of the architects of the temple at Delphi.
_Ag a mĕm' non_, king of Mycenae and leader of the Greeks.
_Aix_ (āks), a city of France, favorite residence of Charlemagne.
_A' jăx_, a Greek hero second only to Achilles.
_Al ex ăn' drŏs_, a name applied to Paris, prince of Troy.