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Ganelon contacts Corwin to tell him that Tir-na Nog ' th will appear tonight, along with its version of the Pattern.
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Ganelon, who is with Benedict, contacts Corwin via Trump.
Ganelon and Corwin
This suggests that the name is chosen because of Ganelon purposefully losing a battle to spite Corwin.
* Corwin, when describing the royal family to Ganelon in Sign of the Unicorn, says that Oberon had two other sons with Benedict's mother Cymnea, the first being Osric, who shares his name with a courtier in Hamlet.
Corwin carries Lance back to a nearby fortress, the Keep of Ganelon.
Corwin meets with Ganelon, whom he also knows, though Ganelon does not recognize him.
Ganelon had once been Corwin's right-hand man in Avalon, until Ganelon betrayed him ( alluding to Ganelon the Traitor, of medieval literature ), for which crime Corwin banished him into an unfamiliar shadow — this one, apparently — and left him to die.
But Ganelon lived and, as he tells Corwin, rose from leading an outlaw band to become leader of all the forces of Lorraine fighting against a strange evil: a constantly-expanding dark circle of toadstools from which demonic creatures and soulless men emerge.
Corwin, Ganelon, and Lance lead an army against the dark circle.
Corwin and Ganelon journey on toward Avalon.
Corwin and Ganelon journey on and meet the Protector, who turns out to be Corwin's long-lost brother Benedict, the most formidable swordsman and military strategist in existence.
Benedict sends Corwin and Ganelon on to his country house.
The grass along the black road encircles the ankles of Ganelon, and Corwin has to free him.
The poem about Avalon that Corwin quotes to Ganelon alludes to both Psalm 137 (" By the rivers of Babylon, there we sat down, yea, we wept when we remembered Zion ") as well as to a classic nursery rhyme (" How many miles to Babylon?
With a shock, Corwin and Ganelon realize that this is the true, Primal Pattern, of which the one in Amber is but the first shadow.
Corwin, Random and Ganelon go down to the Primal Pattern and see that it is damaged, with a dark stain obscuring the pattern from the center to one edge, in the shape of the corrupted Vale of Garnath.
While Corwin and Random discuss whether it would be safe to walk a damaged pattern, Ganelon runs through the stain to the center and retrieves the objects-a dagger, and a pierced Trump card.
Ganelon proposes that Corwin use the Trumps to contact Benedict, who transports them to the slopes of mount Kolvir.
Ganelon stops Gérard's punch and knocks him unconscious with several blows, giving Corwin time to escape.
Reasoning that Brand will attempt to attune himself there, Ganelon asks Benedict to walk the Pattern in Amber, ready to teleport himself there when it appears and tells Corwin to keep permanent contact with Benedict through the Trump to teleport him out in case the city becomes immaterial.
In Roger Zelazny's Chronicles of Amber series, Ganelon appears as a former aid and later betrayer of the main character Corwin in a place called Avalon, alongside the Arthurian character Lancelot du Lac.
Ganelon and tell
Dying, Alcuin tells Phèdre to tell Ysandre what has happened, to trust Admiral Rousse and the remaining Trevalions, that Thelesis de Mornay knows about Alba, and that the important figure is the Dauphine, not Ganelon.
Ganelon and him
While the council of barons which Charlemagne has assembled to decide the traitor's fate is initially swayed by this claim, one man, Thierry, argues that, because Roland was serving Charlemagne when Ganelon delivered his revenge on him, Ganelon's action constitutes a betrayal of the emperor.
Returning to Benedict's house, he encounters Ganelon, who jokingly tells him that several fresh human bodies are buried in the garden.
With Random and Ganelon watching him from mount Kolvir, he ascends to Tir-na Nog ' th, and in the throne room sees Dara as queen, flanked by Benedict wearing a metallic arm.
When Roland nominates him for a highly dangerous mission ( possibly even suicidally dangerous ) as messenger to the Saracens, Ganelon is so deeply offended that he vows vengeance.
Now, the King being in Paris, his nephew the Earl Ganelon, Foulkes of Moryllon, Hardres, and Berenger, came to him and told him that Duke Benes was coming to serve him with two hundred knights, and Ganelon said: " Sire, how may you love or be well served by him who so cruelly has slain your son, our cousin?
Ganelon and will
" Care nothing for that ," said Ganelon, " for he slew well your son Lohier by treason, and he was my kinsman ; and therefore I will be avenged if I may.
Ganelon and with
Two gold necklaces inlaid with jacinths and amethysts are given to Ganelon as a gift for his wife in The Song of Roland ( stanza 50 ).
According to this chanson de geste Ganelon was married to Charlemagne's sister and had a son with her.
This vengeance becomes treachery as Ganelon plots with the pagan Blancandrin the ambush at Roncesvals.
When morning came, Ganelon and his knights departed early from Paris, and with them full 4000 fighting men.
And also he has with him a lineage of people who are deadly and cruel ; that would be Ganelon, Foulkes of Moryllon, and certain others of his court.
Ganelon and .
In the Song of Roland, Ganelon is also the stepfather of the main hero, Roland ; and on the last page of The Hand of Oberon, Zelazny's Ganelon is revealed as Oberon in disguise.
The bold warrior Roland nominates his stepfather Ganelon.
Ganelon is enraged ; he fears that he'll die in the hands of the bloodthirsty pagans and suspects that this is just Roland's intent.
Just as the traitor Ganelon predicted, Roland gallantly volunteers to lead the rear guard.
Ganelon argues that his action was legitimate revenge, openly proclaimed, not treason.
The warriors are stereotypes defined by a few salient traits ; for example, Roland is loyal and trusting while Ganelon, though brave, is traitorous and vindictive.
* Besgun, chief cook of Charlemagne's army ; guards Ganelon after Ganelon's treachery is discovered.
* Pinabel, fights for Ganelon in the judicial combat.
In addition, both Van Owen and Ganelon meet bloody reprisals for their deeds.
Van Owen's body is blown from " here to Johannesburg " by a decapitated Roland while Ganelon is torn in pieces for being a traitor to Charlemagne's army.
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