ABSTRACT
A nd then he raised his hands to God and said : “ Lord, why does it please Thee that, at such a juncture, I should be thus disabled ? ” But at once he added : “ As I cannot get up, let my banner go out and let me be carried in a litter, until I reach the insolent Moors, for I think that when I am there, and they see the litter in which I am being carried, we shall at once defeat them, and so we shall have them all, dead or prisoners.”
