Roland blows his olifant to summon help in the midst the Battle of Roncevaux holding Durendal. Bellamy's Arabic etymology, explaining a possible meaning of the sword's name to be "Ḏū l-jandal" meaning "master of stone". Place's attempt to construe it in Breton as diren dall, meaning "blade dulls cutting edge" or "blade blinds". It has been argued also that the fact that Pseudo-Turpin needed to gloss the name is evidence it was not a name readily understood in French, hence a foreign name. The Pseudo-Turpin explains that the name "Durenda is interpreted to mean it gives a hard strike" ( Durenda interpretatur durum ictum cum ea dans). The name may also connote the meaning of "enduring". Gerhard Rohlfs suggested dur + end'art or "strong flame". Thus Rita Lejeune argued it may break down into durant + dail, renderable in English as "strong scythe" or explained in more detail to mean "a scimitar or scythe which holds, up, resists, endures". The name Durendal arguably begins with a French dur- stem, meaning "hard". Several of the works of the Matter of France agree that it was forged by Wayland the Smith, who is commonly cited as a maker of weapons in chivalric romances. The sword has been given various provenances. It is also said to have belonged to young Charlemagne at one point, and, passing through Saracen hands, came to be owned by Roland. For other uses, see Durandal (disambiguation).ĭurendal, also spelled Durandal, is the sword of Roland, a legendary paladin and partially historical officer of Charlemagne in French epic literature.
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