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“In medieval times, contrary to popular belief, most knights were bandits, mercenaries, lawless brigands, skinners, highwaymen, and thieves. The supposed chivalry of Charlemagne and…

— Tod Wodicka

“Sadly as some old mediaeval knight Gazed at the arms he could no longer wield, The sword two-handed and the shining shield Suspended in…

— Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

“the twelfth-century Song of Roland, which turns the bloody incident into a major conspiracy between the Arabs of Zaragoza and a traitor within Charlemagne’s…

— Susan Wise Bauer

“King Richard, who was a strong, restless, burly man, with one idea always in his head, and that the very troublesome idea of breaking…

— Charles Dickens

“I painlessly came to realize that the reverence I felt for the holiness of life is not ever likely to be entirely at home…

— Eudora Welty

“And now does noble Tristan, Charlemagne’s new paladin, Clap hand on oar and calling upon Our Lady’s virtues”

— Neal Stephenson

“So it appears to me, for when he could and should have wielded his pen to praise the virtues of so good a knight,…

— Miguel de Cervantes

“He soon perceived, however, that the battles which Sir Miles and the rest had waged against armed knights to win a kingdom, were not…

— Virginia Woolf

“From Desert Prince, Expectant Mother … “he had the aura of a mystical knight, with power enough to bear mythic burdens, determination enough to…

— Olivia Gates

“His Greatness the King Pteppicymon XXVIII, Lord of the Heavens, Charioteer of the Wagon of the Sun, Steersman of the Barque of the Sun,…

— Terry Pratchett

“Can I dwell on what I scarce remember? I held a castle on the Marches once, and there was a woman I was pledged…

— George R.R. Martin

“Papa was a gentleman of the last century, with all the chivalrous character, self-reliance, and gallantry of the youth of that time. Upon the…

— Leo Tolstoy