Ferragus
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Ferragus may refer to:
- Ferragut (also known as Ferraù, Ferraguto, Ferragus, Fernagu, Ferracutus), a Saracen paladin (in some texts a giant) in the Historia Caroli Magni (also known as the Pseudo-Turpin Chronicle) and French and Italian romantic epics dealing with the Matter of France, including Orlando innamorato by Matteo Maria Boiardo and Orlando furioso by Ludovico Ariosto.
- Ferragus, a Saracen giant of Portugal in the medieval romance Valentine and Orson.
- Ferragus (novel), a novel by Honoré de Balzac, part of his Histoire des treize.
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