Crossword-Solution: DURANDAL 8 letters, 1 clue 🏆 scrabble score: 10

But when the great battle is joined, then you shall see the lightning flashes of Durandal in the thickest of the fight.

And when that ill-starred expedition was defeated and its warriors bold were fleeing back to France, Roland--so the story goes--finding no pass in the Pyrénées where he needed one desperately, cleaved one with his sword Durandal.

She broke her sword over her.[1806] Was it Saint Catherine's sword? So it was believed, and doubtless not without reason.[1807] In those days men's minds were full of the romantic stories of Joyeuse and Durandal.

There, on his tomb, rested his wondrous sword, Durandal, which was afterwards transported to Roquemador en Quercy.

But their eyes are dim with tears at the recollection of fair France; they weep to see their companions lie prostrate on the grass; the real mistress of Roland, the one to whom his last thought reverts, is not Aude but Durandal, his sword.