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...
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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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Durendal (category The Song of Roland)
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...
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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...
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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...
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of Roland (French: La Chanson de Roland) is a 1978 French drama film directed by Frank Cassenti and starring Klaus Kinski. Klaus Kinski as Roland / Klaus...
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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)...
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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...
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