APPENDIX A. p. xx.
I have done injustice to the part assigned to the horse in French
legendary tales by omitting mention of it in this place. Charles
Louandre ('Chefs-d'oeuvre des conteurs Français,' Paris, 1873, note
to pp. 43-4) calls special attention to it and gives us the name of
many horses famous in the old French minstrelsy. There was 'Valentin,'
the horse of Roland; 'Tencedor, of Charlemagne;' 'Barbamouche, swifter
than the swallow;' and many others. But there is no name to the charger
in the graceful 'Lai de Graélent,' by Marie de France, whose fidelity
is the occasion of his Note. I ought not to have forgotten either,
the honours paid him in the Spanish Romances, of which the brave
'Black Charger of Hernando' ('Patrañas') may serve as the type.