Large and rare Arctic falcon having white and dark color phases.
1 Then said Sir Giffroun, "Sir Le Beau Disconus, you have lost the gerfalcon . "
2 This white bird is a gerfalcon from the north.
3 And who that putteth that knight to the worse shall have a fair maid and a gerfalcon .
4 Smaller than the royal gerfalcon , the Bishop's bird was none the less a swift and beautiful creature.
5 Whistle off the gerfalcon ! cried the Bishop.
6 If my lady be not esteemed so fair as yours, I will fight with you to win the gerfalcon .
7 All men said that Giffroun had lost the white gerfalcon ; and they bore him into the town upon his shield.
8 Whistle off the gerfalcon !
9 I have in this town one fairer, and therefore I shall take your gerfalcon and give it to Arthur the king.
10 If it had not have been for that little bird at Chilton you might have hoodwinked me as blind as ever gerfalcon was hooded.
11 But Le Beau Disconus sent the white gerfalcon to King Arthur for a gift, and the king sent him a hundred pounds' weight of florins.
12 I have gerfalcons , for pigeons and partridges, but none for herons.
13 Of these there are more than 200 gerfalcons alone, without reckoning the other hawks.
14 Know you if poor Alpin had set aside a pair of gerfalcons for his Majesty's tribute?
15 A dozen of his best gerfalcons are beside him, and near at hand ride several of his attendant lords.
16 Old falcons, gerfalcons , and hawks, when they have long swept the plains, end their lives in a hole in a rock.
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