Durendal is, according to tradition the Matter of France, the sword of Orlando, a champion of the Frankish king Charlemagne.
Legend has it that the sword had been given to Orlando from their sovereign.
Instead, in Orlando Furioso by Ludovico Ariosto says that would be given to the rider from Malagig..
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