And when Hervi of Rivel saw the worthy man in such straits, for he had seen him fall to his hands and knees four times and get back up, he spurred over to help him out. And he took a strong, straight lance which he had taken out of a giant's hands and he struck King Rion right on the shield so hard that he broke through it and cut through his hauberk on the left side, but not as far as his flesh, nor by any blow that he dealt him did the king come to harm in any way, but he kept wielding the bludgeon with which he had killed so many a Christian.

Vulgate Merlin