Clavileño
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Clavileño the Swift is a fictional wooden horse appearing in chapters 40 and 41 of the second part of the adventures of Don Quixote.
Don Quixote and Sancho Panza are tricked into using Clavileño, believing they have flown blindfolded and have controlled the horse with a peg in its head. The Dueña Dolorida (Countess Trifaldi) asserts that she and her ladies will be free of their charmed beards if knight and squire fly in the magical horse, send by the sorcerer Malambruno.
In Spanish, "peg" is clavija and "wood", leño, hence the name.
Clavileño is shown by some units of the Spanish Air Force in its badges.
[edit] See also
- Rocinante, Don Quixote's real ride, made of flesh and blood (or rather bones and blood).
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