The Song of Roland: A Summary for the Use of English Readers, with Verse Renderings of Typical PassagesArthur Sanders Way Printed at the Ballantyne Press and sold by David Nutt in the Strand, 1895 - Epic poetry, French - 62 pages |
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adds the poet advancing Archbishop Turpin armour Basan battle beard Blancandrin brave brother-in-arms Caliph Charlemagne Charlemagne's host Charles clarions Clasheth the steel Clasped comrade counsel Count cried Roland dead death died at Roncevaux doth Durendal earth Ebro Emperor Epic felon fief fight Frankish army Frankish baron Frankish envoy Frankish host Frankish warriors Franks fray Ganelon Gascony gauntlet gold hand Harvard College hast hath hauberk Hauteclere head heard heart helmet heroes homage hostages knights who died lance liege lord magne Marsila Mary Osgood mighty minstrel mountain Naimes never Olifant Oliver pagan corpses pagan host paladins Paradise paynim Pinabel prowess Pyrenees Quoth rearguard Saint Saracen King Saragossa shame smite Song of Roland sorely soul sound a blast Spain spake spurs strokes sweet France sweet land swooning sword Taillefer terrible thine thirty sureties thou shalt traitor treachery trusty twelve peers twenty thousand valour vassal word
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Page 5 - Taillefer, who was with William the Conqueror's army at Hastings, marched before the Norman troops, so said the tradition, singing 'of Charlemagne and of Roland and of Oliver, and of the vassals who died at Roncevaux...
Page 10 - ... Roland seems to have been the first song that the conquering Normans chanted in England : it inspired them to victory in the famous Battle of Hastings, when Harold fell, and a momentous epoch of foreign domination was ushered in. Then, Wace tells us, a minstrel Taillefer rode before the host, singing "of Charlemagne, and of Roland, and of Oliver, and of the knights who died at Ronceval.