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Horace is Sir Gawain’s faithful war horse. Horace obediently follows Gawain’s orders and seems to sense when things are not right—as when Sir Gawain and he stumble on a group of widows who want to hold Gawain to account for something he did in the past. Sir Gawain often speaks to Horace because usually Horace is the only company Gawain has. When Axl, Beatrice, and Sir Gawain prepare to go up the mountain where Querig lives for the final time, Horace carries Beatrice, and stays behind to watch over Edwin when the group meets Wistan and Edwin on the mountain. Before Sir Gawain is slain by Wistan, he gives Horace to Axl and Beatrice, who promise to find him a nice field in which he can live out the rest of his days. At the end of the book, Axl and Beatrice bring Horace with them and then let him wander off when they prepare to cross over to the island.
Horace Quotes in The Buried Giant
The The Buried Giant quotes below are all either spoken by Horace or refer to Horace. For each quote, you can also see the other characters and themes related to it (each theme is indicated by its own dot and icon, like this one:
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Chapter 7
Quotes
“We need not quarrel, Master Axl. Here are the skulls of men, I won’t deny it. There an arm, there a leg, but just bones now. An old burial ground. And so it may be. I dare say, sir, our whole country is this way. A fine green valley. A pleasant copse in the springtime. Dig its soil, and not far beneath the daisies and buttercups come the dead. And I don’t talk, sir, only of those who received Christian burial. Beneath our soil lie the remains of old slaughter. Horace and I, we’ve grown weary of it. Weary and we no longer young.”
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Horace Quotes in The Buried Giant
The The Buried Giant quotes below are all either spoken by Horace or refer to Horace. For each quote, you can also see the other characters and themes related to it (each theme is indicated by its own dot and icon, like this one:
).
Chapter 7
Quotes
“We need not quarrel, Master Axl. Here are the skulls of men, I won’t deny it. There an arm, there a leg, but just bones now. An old burial ground. And so it may be. I dare say, sir, our whole country is this way. A fine green valley. A pleasant copse in the springtime. Dig its soil, and not far beneath the daisies and buttercups come the dead. And I don’t talk, sir, only of those who received Christian burial. Beneath our soil lie the remains of old slaughter. Horace and I, we’ve grown weary of it. Weary and we no longer young.”
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