Ogier the Dane (French: Ogier le Danois, Ogier de Danemarche; Danish: Holger Danske) is a legendary paladin of Charlemagne who appears in many Old French...

Ogier the Dane is a figure from medieval legend. Ogier may also refer to: Ogier de Busbecq, Austrian diplomat to the Ottoman Empire Guillem Augier Novella...

a Danish king known as Ogier the Dane (Danish: Holger Danske), was taken to Avalon by the enchantress Morgan le Fay. Ogier returned to rescue France...

sword in the legend of Ogier the Dane. This name is the accusative case declension of Old French corte, meaning "short". The tradition that Ogier had a short...

("mountain rapture"). Examples include the legends of King Arthur, Fionn mac Cumhaill, Charlemagne, Ogier the Dane, King David, Frederick Barbarossa at...

Archbishop Turpin, Ogier the Dane, Huon of Bordeaux, Fierabras, Renaud de Montauban and Ganelon. Their greatest moments come in The Song of Roland (written...

heroes such as Ogier the Dane. Cath Palug's name in French literature is Chapalu (Old French and variant modern forms: Capalu, Capalus). The Welsh name Cat...

staffed separately. Between 1985 and 1997 the number of nursing home beds in Denmark was reduced by 30%. Ogier the Dane (13th C.) legendary knight of Charlemagne...

modern nation identified with the country of Denmark. This connection may be ancestral, legal, historical, or cultural. Danes generally regard themselves...

Charlemagne who came to England, and given to his paladin Ogier the Dane, who further shortened it, and the name "Cortain". This has been regarded as corroborative...

with Radulf on the banks of the Unstrut in Thuringia. The chief heroes of the poems which make up Doon de Mayence are Ogier the Dane, the four sons of Aymon...

Charles the Child. He slew the son of Ogier the Dane, and was killed in revenge, causing a long period of strife between Ogier and the emperor. In the story...

Cortain, or Curtana, the sword wielded by Ogier the Dane, Paladin of Charlemagne This disambiguation page lists articles associated with the title Cortana....

behead the Saracen commander Corsuble as well as to knight his comrade Ogier the Dane. The town of Joyeuse, in Ardèche, is supposedly named after the sword:...

mythological personage. The valets in the Paris pattern have traditionally been associated with such figures as Ogier the Dane (a knight of Charlemagne...

help. In the legend of the Paladins of Charlemagne, she is most associated with one of the Paladins, the Danish folklore hero Ogier the Dane: following...

), but not as the Red Knight. It is possible that he is related to the legend of Ogier the Dane. Two different Red Knights appear in the tale of Gareth...

in which the chessboard is used as a weapon. The French tale of Ogier the Dane reports how the son of Charlemagne brutally kills one of Ogier's sons with...

Bordeaux, where the faery king Oberon is a son of either Morgan by name or "the Lady of the Secret Isle", and the legend of Ogier the Dane, where Avalon...

with Ogier the Dane, whom she takes to her mystical island palace to be her lover. In Huon de Bordeaux, Morgan le Fay and Julius Caesar are the parents...

Montauban in the chanson de geste, The Four Sons of Aymon. A postern also provided a safe retreat for Ogier the Dane. In Malory's Le Morte d'Arthur, "La...

However, the decision would be taken out of his hands. Once the sword is recovered, Holger discovers that he is the legendary Ogier the Dane, a champion...

Hauteclere – The sword of Oliver. Joyeuse – Charlemagne's personal sword. Cortana or Curtana – The sword of Ogier the Dane. Murgleys - The sword of Ganelon...

the Saxons in 778, but that it was rebuilt by an "Olgerus, dux Daniæ" (who may have been the historical person around whom the myth of Ogier the Dane...

Romance Book. (1905) How the Fairies came to see Ogier the Dane. The Red Romance Book. (1905) Marie Antoinette and Mozart. The Book of Princes and Princesses...

the older legends of the Morrígan, and has numerous lovers whom she might even abduct for this purpose (as in some stories of Lancelot and Ogier the Dane...

Danemarche, being the father of the renowned hero Ogier the Dane. In the poem Gudfred gives his son as hostage to Charlemagne. The only statement of his...

poem The Earthly Paradise (1870), retelling the story of Morgan and Ogier the Dane. In his popular and often-adapted satirical novel A Connecticut Yankee...

King Gesar Muhammad al-Mahdi Nero Redivivus legend Ogier the Dane Rudra Chakrin O. J. Padel, "The Nature of Arthur" in Cambrian Medieval Celtic Studies...

Bordeaux, Ogier the Dane and Guy of Warwick. Some are literary fantasies, while others, such as the story of El Cid, have a basis in historical fact. The 1905...