- Big-scale movies - Chronicles going up and down - Extended narrative poems - Heroic stories - Long detailed stories - Long narrative poems - Long poems
- Originally, a knight who led his vassals into the field
under his own banner; -- commonly used as a title of rank. - A title of rank, conferred for heroic deeds, and hence,
an order of knighthood; also, the person bearing such title or rank. - A civil officer in some Swiss cantons. - A small banner.