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Bayard is a
magic bay
horse in the
legends derived from the
chansons de geste, renowned for his spirit, and
possessed the supernatural ability to adjust his size to his riders. "Bayard" is the
French form; in
Italian he's known as
Baiardo and in
Dutch as
Beiaard.
Bayard first appears as the property of
Renaud de Montauban, also known as Rinaldo, in the
twelfth century Chanson de Renaud de Montauban. The horse was capable of carrying Rinaldo and his three brothers,
les quatre fils Aymon ("the four sons of Aymon") all at the same time. Initially, the horse belonged to
Amadis of Gaul. In the poem,
Charlemagne is angered at Renaud, and orders him to be banished, and the horse to be slain by being cast into a river with a millstone around its neck. Bayard survives the ordeal, and after other adventures is reunited with Renaud. Bayard also appears in the
epic poems on
chivalrous subjects by
Matteo Maria Boiardo and
Ludovico Ariosto.
Outside the city of
Dinant in
Belgium stands the "Bayard rock", a large cleft rock formation that was said to have been split by Bayard's mighty
hooves. In the next Belgian town of
Namur stands a locally famous statue of the Horse Bayard and the Four Aymon Brothers along the River Meuse.
Note that a magical horse Blind Byard is part of Lincolnshire folklore at
Byard's Leap
Bayard is also the name given to Troilus' horse in Chaucer's epic poem "Troilus and Criseyde"
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