palmerl (pamer)

[ his exposure in a wicker basket on a mountain-side among palms and olive-trees in Spain. He afterward became famous for his exploits in Germany, England, and the Orient. The exploits of the Palmer ins, as celebrated in the famous Spanish romances called by their name, are evi- dently modeled after those of Amadis of Gaul. În liter a- ture the name is often applied as a term of distinction to any redoubtable champion of the age of chivalry. That brave Rosicler That damned brood of ugly giants slew, And Palmer in Frannarco overthrew. Beau , and Fl . , Knight of Burning Pestle, iii. 2 The oldest ballads tell us nothing at all... of the Palmer ins , nor of many other well-known and famous heroes of the shadow-land of chivalry. Ticknor, Span. Lit., L. 119.