[Legends of the Middle Ages by H.A. Guerber]@TWC D-Link bookLegends of the Middle Ages CHAPTER VIII 14/28
On the morrow, while wandering across a flowery meadow, Ogier encountered Morgana the fay, who gave him a magic ring. Although Ogier was then a hundred years old, he no sooner put it on than he became young once more.
Then, having donned the golden crown of oblivion, he forgot his home, and joined Arthur, Oberon, Tristan, and Lancelot, with whom he spent two hundred years in unchanged youth, enjoying constant jousting and fighting. At the end of that time, his crown having accidentally dropped off, Ogier remembered the past, and returned to France, riding on Papillon.
He reached the court during the reign of one of the Capetian kings.
He was, of course, greatly amazed at the changes which had taken place, but bravely helped to defend Paris against an invasion from the Normans. [Sidenote: Ogier carried to Avalon.] Shortly after this, his magic ring was playfully drawn from his finger and put upon her own by the Countess of Senlis, who, seeing that it restored her vanished youth, would fain have kept it always.
She therefore sent thirty champions to wrest it from Ogier, who, however, defeated them all, and triumphantly retained his ring.
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