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The Song of Roland--(Dorothy L. Sayers) at Faded Page (Canada) The Song of Roland public domain audiobook at LibriVox; La Chanson de Roland (Old French) The Romance of the Middle Ages: The Song of Roland Archived 2019-08-01 at the Wayback Machine, discussion of Oxford, Bodleian Library MS Digby 23, audio clip, and discussion of the manuscript's ...
Turoldus, or Turold, is the name traditionally given to the author of the 11th-century French poem the Song of Roland. Efforts to make a convincing further identification of the identity of Turoldus have failed. The Latin form Turoldus is equivalent to the personal name Thorold. [1]
The eight phases of The Song of Roland in one picture.. The chanson de geste (Old French for 'song of heroic deeds', [a] from Latin: gesta 'deeds, actions accomplished') [1] is a medieval narrative, a type of epic poem that appears at the dawn of French literature. [2]
He was for many years regarded as the author of the legendary Historia Caroli Magni, which is thus also known as the "Pseudo-Turpin Chronicle". He appears as one of the Twelve Peers of France in a number of the chansons de geste, [2] the most important of which is the Song of Roland.
Durendal, also spelled Durandal, is the sword of Roland, a legendary paladin and partially historical officer of Charlemagne in French epic literature. The sword is 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.
Many of the songs Roland wrote during this fraught period formed The Tipping Point, and the tragedy brought Orzabal and Smith, who had gone their separate ways musically from 1991 to 2004, closer ...
Jean Lannes, a Marshal of the First French Empire, was given the nickname Roland de l'Armée d'Italie, which later became Roland de la Grande Armée, for his bravery and charisma. A statue of Roland stands in the city of Rolândia in Brazil. The city was established by German immigrants, many of them refugees from Nazi Germany, who named their ...
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