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Ferragus

Giant of medieval romance. Orlando slew him with a wound in the navel, his only vulnerable part.

In Valentine and Orson he is described as a giant of Portugal who took Bellisant under his care after she had been divorced by Alexander, Emperor of Constantinople, and as being in the possession of a brazen head which could answer any question put to it. In the Chronicle of Charlemagne he is a giant 11 m/36 ft high, with the strength of 40 men, and with an invulnerable skin; while in Ariosto's Orlando furioso he is described as a Saracen, son of Lanfusa.



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