- Song of
Roland (French: La
Chanson de Roland) is an 11th-century
chanson de geste based on the
deeds of the
Frankish military leader Roland at the Battle...
- century: only
three chansons de geste have a
composition that
incontestably dates from
before 1150: the
Chanson de Guillaume, The Song of
Roland and
Gormont et...
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first and most
famous of
these epic
treatments was the Old
French Chanson de Roland of the 11th century. Two
masterpieces of
Italian Renaissance poetry...
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famous for its
hardness and sharpness.
Sources including La
Chanson de Roland (The Song of
Roland)
state that it
first belonged to the
young Charlemagne....
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further conjecture that he
could be
Turoldus as
mentioned in the
Chanson de Roland.
Jongleurs of this era
could be
extremely skilled,
therefore could...
- Syr Guy of Warwick, a
Sultan swears an oath by Termagant. In The
Chanson de Roland, the Saracens,
having lost the
battle of Roncesvalles,
desecrate their...
- Christianity. This
cycle contains the best
known of the
chansons, the
Chanson de Roland. La
Geste de Garin de Monglane,
whose central character was Guillaume...
- the
Chanson de Roland, and Les Épopées françaises (3 volumes, 1866–1867; 2nd edition, 5 volumes, 1878–1897,
including a
Bibliographie des
chansons de geste)...
- (1900), La
chanson de Roland (1921), and Les
fabliaux (1893). He was a
member of the Académie française from 1920
until his death. His Le
roman de Tristan...
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Roland who
served in the
Frankish army
under Charlemagne circa 778 A.D. and
whose exploits were
celebrated in the
Chanson de Roland or Song of
Roland...
