Orson suckled by a Bear. Valentine and Orson is a romance which has been attached to the Carolingian cycle.
It is the story of twin brothers, abandoned in the woods in infancy. Valentine is brought up as a knight at the court of Pippin, while Orson grows up in a bear's den to be a wild man of the woods, until he is overcome and tamed by Valentine, whose servant and comrade he becomes. The two eventually rescue their mother Bellisant, sister of Pippin and wife of the emperor of Greece, by whom she had been unjustly repudiated, from the power of a giant named Ferragus.
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Photo credit: © Walker Art Library / Alamy / Afripics
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