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Chanson de Roland
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Chanson de Roland


(English; “Song of Roland”)

Old French epic poem written c. 1100, the masterpiece and probably the earliest of the chanson de geste form. Its probable author was a Norman, Turold (Turoldus), whose name is introduced in its last line. It deals with the Battle of Roncesvalles (778), a skirmish against the Basques that the poem portrays as a heroic battle against the Saracens. Direct and sober in style, it highlights a clash between the recklessly courageous Roland and his prudent friend Oliver, which is also a conflict between divergent conceptions of feudal loyalty.
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00 Paperback PQ1523 When students and scholars speak of The Song of Roland, they generally refer to the text in the manuscript Digby 23 at Oxford University, but American scholar of French language and literature Burland points out that the story of the deaths of Roland and the 12 peers of France at the Battle of Roncevaux circulated in countless oral and written versions.
Strange words; retelling and reception in the medieval Roland textual ... by Reference & Research Book News
The French term for this is battre son coulpe; in the Song of Roland, the title character, Charlemagne's nephew, does this at the point in the story when he knows he is mortally wounded.
Sententiae antiquae by Hamez, Nick / Verbatim
One failed campaign in Spain inspired the first great epic poem in French literature, The Song of Roland.
Charlemagne by Miller, Amy / Junior Scholastic
 
 
 
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