Bayard

Also called Bayart, Beiard.

The horse of the Four Sons of Aymon, who grew to carry all four, understood speech, and broke the stone Charlemagne drowned him with.

Tradition: French folklore
Region: France (place of origin)
Symbols: Horse

Near this figure

Kinabalu Superhuman endurance
Dragon-Carp Speech

Symbols

Judged against the description by a model. Meanings are our own paraphrase.

Horse is image-domain The horse denotes harnessed striving power, mount of gods, sun and sea alike, carrying the dead as psychopomp and the living into their conquests.
why
The horse of the Four Sons of Aymon, who grew to carry all four, understood speech, and broke the stone Charlemagne drowned him with.

Traits

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Defensive powers

Superhuman endurance
why
Forced at last to surrender the horse, Charlemagne has a heavy stone tied to him and has him thrown into the Meuse — and Bayard breaks the stone, swims clear of the river, outruns the pursuit into the woods, and the tradition leaves him there alive.

Utility powers

Shapeshifting size
why
Ridden by one of the brothers he is an ordinary horse; ridden by all four he lengthens to carry them, and every retelling keeps that detail because it is the one thing about him that cannot be explained away as an unusually good animal.
Speech
why
He understood human speech, and the romances credit him with intelligence, loyalty and speed beyond any other horse alive.

Roles

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