But as the train drew
nigh, she beheld a sumptuous bier, covered with black velvet, and on
it lay a warrior, as if taking his repose: he lay in his armor, with
his helmet on his head, and his sword in his hand, as one who had
never been conquered, and around the bier were the escutcheons of
the house of Hinojosa.
A number of Moorish cavaliers attended the bier, with emblems of
mourning, and with dejected countenances; and their leader cast
himself at the feet of Dona Maria, and hid his face in his hands.
She beheld in him the gallant Abadil, whom she had once welcomed
with his bride to her castle; but who now came with the body of her
lord, whom he had unknowingly slain in battle I
The sepulchre erected in the cloisters of the convent of San
Domingo, was achieved at the expense of the Moor Abadil, as a feeble
testimony of his grief for the death of the good knight Don Munio, and
his reverence for his memory. The tender and faithful Dona Maria
soon followed her lord to the tomb. On one of the stones of a small
arch, beside his sepulchre, is the following simple inscription:
"Hic jacet Maria Palacin, uxor Munonis Sancij De Finojosa": "Here lies
Maria Palacin, wife of Munio Sancho de Hinojosa."
The legend of Don Munio Sancho does not conclude with his death.
On the same day on which the battle took place on the plain of
Salmanara, a chaplain of the Holy Temple at Jerusalem, while
standing at the outer gate, beheld a train of Christian cavaliers
advancing, as if in pilgrimage.
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