In the legends derived from the chansons de geste Bayard was a magic bay horse, renowned for his spirit, and who possessed the supernatural ability to adjust his size to his riders. "Bayard" is the French form; in Italian he is known as Baiardo. Daniel Is not a very good example of a legend For other senses of this word, see legend (disambiguation). ... The chansons de geste, Old French for songs of heroic deeds, are the epic poetry that appears at the dawn of French literature. ... The ancient symbol of the pentagram is often used as a symbol for magic. ... Binomial name Equus caballus Linnaeus, 1758 The Horse (Equus caballus) is a sizeable ungulate mammal, one of the seven modern species of the genus Equus. ...

Bayard first appears as the property of Renaud, also known as Rinaldo, in the twelfth century Chanson de Renaud de Montauban. The horse was capable of carrying Rinaldo and his three brothers, les quatre fils Aymon ("the four sons of Aymon") all at the same time. Initially, the horse belonged to Amadis of Gaul. In the poem, Charlemagne is angered at Renaud, and orders him to be banished, and the horse to be slain by being cast into a river with a millstone around its neck. Bayard survives the ordeal, and after other adventures is reunited with Renaud. Bayard also appears in the epic poems on chivalrous subjects by Ludovico Ariosto and Torquato Tasso. (11th century - 12th century - 13th century - other centuries) As a means of recording the passage of time, the 12th century was that century which lasted from 1101 to 1200. ... Renaud de Montauban, also known as Rinaldo di Montalbano, was a fictional hero who was introduced to literature in a twelfth century Old French chanson de geste. ... Amadis of Gaul is a work of fiction on the subject of Portugal and it was probably written in the early 14th Century. ... Charlemagne is also the name of a column in The Economist on European affairs. ... EPIC might be an acronym or abbreviation for: Electronic Privacy Information Center Explicitly Parallel Instruction Computing Enhanced Programmable ircII Client El Paso Intelligence Center End Poverty In California European Privatisation and Investment Corporation Sometimes it is also used to refer to Epic Games game development company. ... See also order of chivalry Woman under the Safeguard of Knighthood, allegorical Scene. ... Ludovico Ariosto (September 8, 1474 – July 6, 1533) was an Italian poet, author of the epic poem Orlando furioso (1516), Orlando Enraged. He was born at Reggio, in Emilia. ... Torquato Tasso (March 11, 1544 – April 25, 1595) was an Italian poet of the 16th century, best known for his poem La Gerusalemme liberata (Jerusalem Delivered; 1575), in which he describes the imaginary combats between Christians and Muslims at the end of the First Crusade, during the siege of Jerusalem. ...

Outside the city of Dinant in Belgium stands the "Bayard rock", a large cleft rock formation that was said to have been split by Bayard's mighty hooves. Main church of Dinant at the Meuse river, picture taken from the citadel Dinant is a municipality located in the Belgian province of Namur, in Wallonia. ... A claw is a curved pointed growth found at the end of a toe or finger, or in arthropods, of the tarsus. ...

Bayard can also refer to:

• Pierre Terrail, seigneur de Bayard