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Anonymous

Presents the epic poem which records a battle between Charlemagne's army and the Saracens of Spain in 778, and focuses on Charlemagne's nephew, who leads his men in battle.

The Song of Roland

Maureen

"A man who betrays another has no right to boast of it."

Well this was a gory read.

Jean-Paul Sartre

The Song of Roland, as Dorothy Sayers remarks in the introduction to this fine translation, is 'the earliest, the most famous, and the greatest of those Old French epics which are called Songs of Deeds'. Writing around the end of the eleventh century, and recalling an actual disaster in 778, the anonymous poet describes in detail the betrayal and slaughter by Saracens of the rearguard of Charlemagne's army under Roland at Rencevaux and Charlemagne's bitter revenge. Nowhere in literature is the medieval code of chivalry more perfectly expressed than in this masterly and exciting poem.

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