Gaignun ("watch-dog") is the
warhorse of
Marsile
Marsile (variously spelled Marsilie, Marsilius, Marsilion, Marcilie, Marsille, Marsilies, Marsilun, or Marsiluns) is a character in the French heroic poem '' The Song of Roland''. He is the Muslim king of the Saracens and of Saragossa. He first a ...
,
Saracen king of
Spain in the French epic, ''
The Song of Roland''.
Gaignun is mentioned in laisse 142 of the poem.
References
Matter of France
Individual warhorses
Fictional horses
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