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Ulania

Queen of Perduta or Islanda, sent a golden shield to Charlemagne, which he was to give to his bravest paladin. Whoever could win the shield from this paladin was to claim the hand of Ulania in marriage.

(Orlando Furioso, bk. xv.)

Source: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, E. Cobham Brewer, 1894
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