When it saw itself thus surrounded, it stood still as if it didn't want to move, and then I told one of my sons to strike it. He struck it so that the lance head appeared on the other side of its leg. It uttered a cry so agonized and frightened that there's no knight in the world who wouldn't have been terrified, had he heard it. What shall I tell you? The cry was so strange and eerie that not one of us could hold himself in the saddle and we all fell unconscious to the ground."

"When I regained consciousness, I found myself struck through the body by a lance stroke such that I thought I would die at once. And when I looked around me, expecting help from my sons, I found them all eleven dead.

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