The Song of Roland (French: La Chanson de Roland) is an 11th-century chanson de geste based on the Frankish military leader Roland at the Battle of Roncevaux...

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...

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...

"Ḏū l-jandal" meaning "master of stone". According to La Chanson de Roland (The Song of Roland), the sword was brought by an angel to Charlemagne who was...

further conjecture that he could be Turoldus as mentioned in the Chanson de Roland. Jongleurs of this era could be extremely skilled, therefore could...

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...

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...

(Frankish) count and nemesis to the titular hero of the epic La chanson de Roland (The Song of Roland). According to the French version, its "golden pommel (l'orie...

(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...

into being to support that idea, most notably the Chanson de Roland, an 11th-century French chanson de geste that offers a fictionalised retelling of the...