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Tannhäuser, flushed and radiant, magnificent in his festival robes of a noble minstrel-knight, casts himself impetuously at her feet. His sudden appearance startles her painfully. Her manner speaks a confusion almost tremulous: "Father in Heaven!... Do not kneel!... It is not meet that I should see you here!" "What else so meet?
On went the Normans in the light of the rising sun of the 13th of October, Taillefer, a minstrel-knight, riding first, playing on his harp and singing the war-song of Roland the Paladin. At seven o'clock they were before the Saxon camp, and Fitzosborn and the body under his command dashed up the hill, under a cloud of arrows, shouting, "Notre Dame!
At the head rode a minstrel-knight, singing an old battle-song, and whirling up his sword in the air and catching it again as it fell. Now the battle began in real earnest. A flight of arrows was let loose upon the English host, then the Normans charged up to the palisade. As well might they have flung themselves against a stone wall.
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