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Did you know that a medieval ivory chest showing a fictional battle between Richard I and Saladin was found in a Brighton junk shop in 1945?
Le Pas Saladin (Old French for 'Saladin's Pass') is a fourteenth-century poem in Old French, describing a fictitious battle where a group of twelve crusaders including Richard the Lionheart hold a mountain pass against the army of Saladin. It survives in one manuscript, Bibliothèque Nationale 24432. The poem did not originate the story, and the term Pas Saladin is used consistently across medieval sources to name the common motif of Richard and eleven or twelve other knights standing against Saladin's army.
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