The Song of Roland

By Moncrief, C. S.

Book Id: WPLBN0003467244
Format Type: PDF eBook:
File Size: 67.35 MB
Reproduction Date: 2014

Title:	The Song of Roland
Author:	Moncrief, C. S.
Volume:
Language:	English
Subject:	Sacred Texts, Legends and Sagas, France
Collections:	Sacred Texts
Historic Publication Date:	1919
Publisher:	Internet Sacred Text Archive (ISTA)


Citation APA MLA Chicago C. S, B. M. (1919). The Song of Roland. Retrieved from https://www.central.gutenberg.org/

Description
Description: On 15 August 778, Charlemagne's army was returning from a successful expedition against Saracen Spain when its rearguard was ambushed in a remote Pyrenean pass. Out of this skirmish arose a stirring tale of war, which was recorded in the oldest extant epic poem in French. The Song of Roland, written by an unknown poet, tells of Charlemagne's warrior nephew, Lord of the Breton Marches, who valiantly leads his men into battle against the Saracens, but dies in the massacre, defiant to the end. In majestic verses, the battle becomes a symbolic struggle between Christianity and paganism, while Roland's last stand is the ultimate expression of honour and feudal values of twelfth-century France.