Swords of Anjou

In his devotion to his liege lord, in his courage against the pagan Moors of Spain, in his tenderness for the Visigothic beauty Elvira, young Thierry of Anjou represented the best product of chivalry.It is a story that takes its spirit as well as its events from the Song of Roland and the medieval chansons de geste. Here are drama and suspense, treachery and heroism, gory battle and broad humor, love pure and impure, against the background of feudal France and Moorish Spain.The two poles between which lies most of the action are the treachery of Ganelon that sends Roland and his twenty thousand vassals to their death, on the field at Rencevals, and the trial by combat that pits Thierry as the emperor Charlemagne's champion against the redoubtable Pinabel, champion of the traitor.