Summaries and Commentaries

Chapter XI

klaxon—a kind of electric horn with a loud, shrill sound.

Arriba—(Spanish) up, upwards.

posada—(Spanish) an inn.

arriero—(Spanish) mule driver.

aguardiente—(Spanish) clear brandy

Roncesvalles—a pass through the Pyrenees, near the French border in the Navarra province of Spain, utilized often by pilgrims from Paris to Santiago de Compostela.

Roncevaux—French name for Roncesvalles.

Nuestra Señora de Roncesvalles—Our Lady of Roncesvalles.

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