Olifant is an alternate spelling of the word elephant. A similar spelling, oliphaunt, is used by J.R.R. Tolkien's hobbits in The Lord of the Rings to describe a monstrous elephant-like creature. Genera and Species Loxodonta Loxodonta cyclotis Loxodonta africana Elephas Elephas maximus Elephas recki † Stegodon † Mammuthus † Elephantidae (the elephants) is a family of animals, and the only remaining family in the order Proboscidea. ... In J. R. R. Tolkiens fictional universe of Middle-earth, an oliphaunt, or mûmak, is an animal similar to but larger than the elephant. ... J. R. R. Tolkien in 1916. ... Hobbits are a race from J. R. R. Tolkiens Middle-earth universe which first appears in the book The Hobbit. ... Wikicities has a wiki about lotr: The Lord of the Rings Wiki Lord of the Ring tour reviews Council of Elrond - news and scholarship The Encyclopedia of Arda - Mark Fishers tribute site to the works of Tolkien Tolkien Herr der Ringe - Portal (ger. ...

A 14th-century olifant, or hunting-horn, in ivory.

Olifant is also the name of Roland's legendary trumpet or horn (probably of ivory) in The Song of Roland. Roland fails to call for help at the Battle of Roncevaux in 778 until it is too late for him and his comrades. Image File history File links Download high resolution version (1462x1586, 81 KB)Olifant, or Hunting-horn, in Ivory (Fourteenth Century). ... Image File history File links Download high resolution version (1462x1586, 81 KB)Olifant, or Hunting-horn, in Ivory (Fourteenth Century). ... Roland pledges his fealty to Charlemagne; from a manuscript of a chanson de geste. ... Ivory is a hard, white, opaque substance that is the bulk of the teeth and tusks of animals such as the elephant, hippopotamus, walrus, mammoth, etc. ... The Song of Roland (La Chanson de Roland) is an 11th century Old French epic poem about the Battle of Roncevaux Pass (or Roncesvalles) fought by Roland of the Brittany Marches and his fellow paladins. ... The Roncevaux Pass (Roncesvaux in English, Roncesvalles in Spanish, Orreaga in Basque) is the site of a famous battle in 778 in which Hroudland (later changed to Roland), prefect of Brittany March was defeated by the Basques. ... Events Charlemagne fights the Moors in Spain. ...

The Karlamagnus Saga elaborates (V. c.XIV) that Roland's Olifant was a unicorn's horn, hunted in India. The gentle and pensive virgin has the power to tame the unicorn, in this fresco in Palazzo Farnese, Rome, probably by Domenichino, ca 1602 The unicorn is a legendary creature embodied like a horse, but slender and with a single — usually spiral — horn growing out of its forehead. ...

• The Song of Roland (Oxford text, trans. Douglas David Roy Owen, 1972. George Allen and Unwin, ISBN 0048410039

Olifant is also a South African version of the British Centurion tank. Oxford is a city and local government district in Oxfordshire, England, with a population of 134,248 (2001 census). ... 1972 (MCMLXXII) was a leap year that started on a Saturday. ... The Centurion was the primary British Main Battle Tank of the immediate post-war era, and considered by many to be one of the best British tank designs of all time. ...