The text of the Chanson de Roland reproduced in this edition is contained in MS. Digby 23 of the Bodleian Lib- rary. This MS. was executed in the twelfth century; accord- ing to Samaran, in …

La Chanson de Roland est divisée en tirades de longueur très variable, et composées chacune de vers ayant même assonance. En général, chaque couplet a le mérite d’offrir un …

Roland was adopted in the 19th century as a French national hero, and this chanson de geste, in which he appears, as the French national epic. The major extant manuscript of the Song of …

Before you listen to the song, listen and repeat as your instructor pronounces the words on the right-hand side of the page. Then as you listen to each verse, match the word you hear to the …

Both of these flaws were corrected in a series of seminal studies on the chanson by Howard Mayer Brown, a body of research that provided the foundation for virtually all recent thought …

Charles the king, our great emperor, has been in Spain for seven full years; he has conquered all the upland right down to the seashore and not a castle can stand before him; neither wall nor …

La Chanson de Roland est ce qu'on appelait en ancien français une chanson de geste, c'est-à-dire un poème épique destiné à être chanté et censé fondé sur une histoire écrite en latin (tel …