Horse 10, Bayard

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This figurine is missing or may be one of the two unidentified horses present in the collection. A physical description of this figurine is unavailable. 10. Bayard. The horse of Duke Aymon of Dordogne (as fetched to him from out of hell by the sorcerer Malagigi), and later of Aymon's sons, which grew smaller or larger as one or more of them mounted it. There is an anonymous mediaeval romance, , and the chief of them, Rinaldo of Montalban, was among the twelve paladins of Charlemagne. In Ariosto's Bayard becomes Bayardo, a partly divine wild horse, once the property of Amadis of Gaul, and Rinaldo is represented as its captor and subsequent master. A gift from Diego de Arredondo Dodd of St. Augustine, Florida.

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