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ORGUILLUS
A giant from Africa who, in Thomas’s Tristan, conquered dozens of kings and stole their beards. With the beards, he fashioned a robe, but had a single open space. He demanded King Arthur’s beard. Arthur was suitably enraged and, after a long battle, defeated Orguillus. Orguillus’s nephew later made a similar demand of the king of Spain, but was defeated by Sir Tristan. Orguillus’s role is served by Rions or Ritho in other tales.
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