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	LEGEND OF ROLAND - LoveToKnow Article on LEGEND OF ROLAND (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
		Rolands master-passions are daring and an exaggerated conception of honor, the extravagance of which is the cause of the disaster.
		Roland was variously represented by the romancers as the son of Charlemagnes sister Gilles or Berte and the knight Milon dAnglers.
		It was in Italy that the Roland legend had its greatest fortune: Charlemagne and Roland appear in the Paradiso (canto xviii.) of Dante; the statues of Roland and Oliver appear on the doorway of the cathedral of Verona; and the French chansons de geste regularly appeared in a corrupt Italianized French.
	www.1911encyclopedia.org /R/RO/ROLAND_LEGEND_OF.htm (2169 words)

	Brewer, E. Cobham. Dictionary of Phrase & Fable. Roland, (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
		Roland and Oliver were two of the paladins of Charlemagne, whose exploits are so similar that it is very difficult to keep them distinct.
		It is said that Roland, the great paladin, set upo&ngrave; in the defile of Roncesvalles, escaped the general slaughter, and died of hunger and thirst in seeking to cross the Pyrenees.
		Roland died of his wounds, but in dying threw his trusty sword Durandal into a poisoned stream, where it remained.
	www.bartleby.com /81/14436.html (722 words)

	Roland on Encyclopedia.com (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
		Existence of an early Roland poem is indicated by the historian Wace's statement that Taillefer sang of Roland's deeds to inflame the men before the Battle of Hastings (1066).
		Historically Roland was Charlemagne's commander on the Breton border; he was killed in a pass in the Pyrenees when Basques cut off the rear guard of the Frankish army returning from its invasion of Spain in 778.
		Roland Petit et sa femme, la danseuse et chanteuse Zizi Jeanmaire, à l'issue du spectacle de danse "Roland Petit raconte les.
	www.encyclopedia.com /html/R/Roland.asp (1052 words)

	Talk:Roland - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		But the earliest reliable and most famous Chanson de Roland of which I know myself is ms.
		Roland, my feeling would be that the genuine 12th c.
		The current German spelling for "Roland" is "Roland".
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Talk:Roland (374 words)

	King Arthur
		Morgan le Fay was also considered to be Arthur's sister, but I am not certain that if she was Arthur's sister or half-sister.
		As early as the French author Chretien de Troyes in the second half of the 12th century, the legend began to focus away from the king himself and more on his knights from the Round Table.
		De excidio et conquestu Britanniae ("The Overthrow and Conquest of Britain") was written by Gildas (died c.
	www.timelessmyths.com /arthurian/arthur.html (3672 words)

	Holy War in The Song of Roland: The "Mythification" of History (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
		Roland, a character of whom the existence is uncertain, and whose actions strike us as unusual, is present in the annal of Egihard.
		Roland, un hÈros de la foi mourant pour son Dieu et pour son roi, un modËle des vertus chevlresques selon l’glise: chevalier, croisÈ, martyr....
		Roland, a hero of the faith who died for his God and his king, became a model of chivalric virtues according to the Church: knight, crusader, martyr....
	surj.stanford.edu /archives/2003-04HolyWar.html (3998 words)

	ROLAND (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
		Like old-fashioned Westerns, the chansons de geste were packed with action, and their heroes tended to steer clear of sentimental entanglements with women.
		The chansons de geste "all went back to the French Chanson de Roland and celebrated the noble Franks as invincible warriors in their fight against "infidel gods...." (Heer, 166) More than eighty of the chansons de geste survive, in whole, or partially.
		The Chanson de Roland "describes Charlemagne's expedition into Spain and the disastrous battle of the rear guard...It recalls one of the most famous victims of the ambush.
	novaonline.nv.cc.va.us /eli/eng251/rolandstudy.htm (3611 words)

	JamesBowman.net \| From Heroes to Herostratus (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
		Some are good people wishing to be known for their good deeds, some are good people wishing not to be known as such — in keeping with Christ’s instruction not to let the left hand know what the right hand is doing) — and some are bad people wishing not to be known as bad.
		If Roland preferred death to the prospect of a bad song being sung about him, his successors a millennium later look upon it with more equanimity — where they do not, like Herostratus, positively relish it.
		Roland never knew what we have come to regard as almost axiomatic: that, to adapt a familiar saying, no song is a bad song.
	www.jamesbowman.net /article.asp?pubID=456 (3577 words)

	MasterPieces of French Lit I
		La Chanson de Roland — et des oeuvres de quelques auteurs principaux du seizième au dix-huitième siècles.
		Les textes représentent des genres différents : la chanson de geste, le récit de voyage, l’essai, la tragédie, le roman épistolaire, et le conte et le dialogue philosophiques, permettant une introduction aux formes littéraires.
		Au dix-huitième siècle, par example, les philosophes ont inventé des personnages «exotiques» ou «sauvages» pour servir comme critique de la culture française.
	www.yu.edu /yeshivacollege/yc/syllabuses/haah2101fre.htm (546 words)

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		They maintain that the "Chanson de Roland" was not as old as the battle of Hastings, and certainly Wace gave no sufficient proof of it.
		The "Chanson" is so masculine that, in all its four thousand lines, the only Christian woman so much as mentioned was Alda, the sister of Oliver and the betrothed of Roland, to whom one stanza, exceedingly like a later insertion, was given, toward the end.
		The "Chanson" had taken pains to show that the disaster at Roncesvalles was due to Roland's headstrong folly and temper.
	xroads.virginia.edu /~Hyper/Adams_Mont/ch02.txt (5154 words)

	Theatre Goes to War
		“Le Chanson de Roland,” or “The Song of Roland,” is the oldest surviving French poem.
		Roland is the nephew of Charlemagne and his right-hand man, who helps Charlemagne conquer lands and fight gallant battles.
		“Roland’s Song” is an example of what is called an ensemble piece, or a piece that is written by the cast one part at a time.
	www.kennesaw.edu /arts/WEEKLY_NEWS_POSTS/_NEWS_ARCHIVES/theatre_news_archives/05-03Roland'sSong.html (445 words)

	Roland Items List - English
		That the Roland effigy(mid-12c.) is carved on the exterior face of the Verona Cathedral, where he is shown bearing a shield and a sword inscribed DV RIN DAR DA (though this inscription added at a later date).
		Roland's horn becomes a weapon of miracle (St. 171) and it has been a long-held traditon which asserted that it was enshrined at the St. Seuran Church in Bordeaux (li 3686).
		Its basilica (Basilique de Saint-Seurin) was built in the 6th century and remodeled in the 12th century.
	www.home.ix.netcom.com /~kyamazak/myth/roland/roland-items-e.htm (11131 words)

	La Chanson de Roland (The Song of Roland)
		They sing and enact the exploits of the valiant Roland, a Tenth Century knight who, in the reign of King Charlemagne, helped stem the advance of Arabs into France, before being betrayed by the armies of King Marsile at Roncevaux.
		One of the most unusual of French cinema's historical dramas, La Chanson de Roland tells a tale of heroism, faith and human suffering.
		The film switches between a re-enactment of the exploits of a 10th Century knight Roland and a 12th century pilgrimage, a curious melange which illustrates the importance of folklore in medieval culture — past heroism somehow giving some sense to today’s otherwise meaningless existence.
	frenchfilms.topcities.com /nf_La_Chanson_de_Roland_rev.html (312 words)

	Chanson de Roland
		Laisses 93-5 : ces trois laisses sont bâties sur le même schéma narratif.
		Ces laissent évoquent des sentiments contradictoires chez les Français.
		Laisses 128-31 (à lire en parallèle avec les laisses 83-6) : analysez le dialogue entre Olivier et Roland.
	people.uncw.edu /barthep/321fall03/chanson_de_roland_2.htm (285 words)

	The Mark Discordia Singles Tournament (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
		One of the lesser purposes for introducing this bill was to facilitate the re-election of Senator David Atchison, while its passage allowed Eli Thayer to grow wealthy from an interest in the recently founded New England Emigrant Aid Company.
		A resident of the valley of Sorek, she was paid 1100 pieces of silver by each lord of her people for her deed.
		Three lies were told to her, involving seven undried withs, unused ropes, and the construction of a web.
	www.stanford.edu /group/CollegeBowl/archive/discord01/DS1.htm (4237 words)

	Trafford Publishing: Among the Pilgrims: Journeys to Santiago de Compostela (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
		In ten chapters covering everything from medieval miracle tales to the modern perils of shin splints and flat tires, she gives her view, as a medievalist, outdoor enthusiast, and inquiring pilgrim with Buddhist leanings, of the five hundred mile trail to Santiago.
		Here, in 779 AD, Count Roland was slain, blowing a dying note upon his magical oliphant to summon help from King Charlemagne - thereby giving birth to Le Chanson de Roland - and French literature.
		I saw it in the friendly faces of believing pilgrims, felt it in the gentle hands of hostel volunteers as they cared for my blisters, and heard it in my conversations with the bright young priests in t-shirts I sometimes met in the churches.
	www.trafford.com /4dcgi/view-item?item=3823&155225053-20014aaa (2810 words)

	Roland Corporation - manufacturer of electronic music related products
		It was founded by Ikutaro Kakehashi in Osaka on April 18, 1972, and was named after the French epic poem, Le Chanson de Roland.
		Roland SH-101: Monophonic synthesizer designed to be worn hung around the neck with a strap, with an optional modulation attachment that protruded like the neck of a guitar
		Roland TR-808: One of the first and most popular of the programmable drum machines and the sounds that are particular to that machine have become pop music cliches, heard on countless recordings
	www.japan-101.com /business/roland_corporation.htm (457 words)

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		Par cels de France voelt il del tut errer.
		Des ore cumencet le cunseill que mal prist.
		Roland picks up the motif by referring to the size of his desire:
	www.bu.edu /english/levine/roland.htm (3071 words)

	Regnum Crucis (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
		This is what le Pen wants to do and he basically takes such sentiments to their logical extremes.
		The French may recoil from this option for the time being out of their desire to retain a source of cheap labor, but this is the inevitable consequence of such beliefs.
		And judging from the amount of support that le Pen has gotten in France recently (between 18-20%, a full fourth of the population), I would say that the anti-immigrant legislation hasn't so much been subdued as it has been delayed.
	www.regnumcrucis.blogspot.com /2004_02_29_regnumcrucis_archive.html (14079 words)

	UIC Graduate College -- Courses: French (Fr) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
		Introduction to major medieval genres (epic, romance, lyric, theater, allegory) works and authors, such as le Chanson de Roland, Tristan, Chretien de Troyes, Marie de France, Villon.
		Prerequisite: Fr 301 or consent of the instructor.
		Intensive analysis of Renaissance literature (Rabelais, Montaigne, Marguerite de Navarra, poetry of the Pleiade, etc.) in the cultural context of Humanism and the Reformation.
	www.uic.edu /depts/grad/courses/fr.shtml (1071 words)

	TheFourthRail.com (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
		Le Moyen de Parvenir was one of a number of late Renaissance French menippean satires.
		Le Docteur Oméga was one of the earliest of any science fiction magazines, French or otherwise; it was about Doctor Omega, an inventor-adventurer, who goes to Mars and fights various Martians, some of whom are quite like the one seen here.
		Karpathenburg Castle is from Jules Verne's Le Château des Carpathes (The Castle of the Carpathians, 1892).
	www.thefourthrail.com /features/0902/loeg2-2notes.shtml (9466 words)

	The Onomastics of Cooper's Verbal Art in The Deerslayer and Elsewhere
		In the course of the tale we also hear of the Iroquois (whose name suggests their French connections, and they are called "Canada wolves" and "Canadian blood-suckers") and the Mohicans (Mahicanni, with whom Cooper was to deal in full in The Last of the Mohicans some fourteen years later than The Deerslayer in its setting).
		The appellation of the fighting chief was supposed to indicate the qualities of the warrior, agreeably to a practice of the redman's nomenclature; ferocity, cunning, and treachery being, perhaps, the distinctive features of his character.
		In his world there are deeds to do and names to be made, not inherited from the old culture of Europe, names to be earned "in the presence of this continent," as a later writer would put it.
	external.oneonta.edu /cooper/articles/suny/1980suny-ashley.html (3808 words)

	Blank (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
		This module offers an overview of some of the great romance literature of the later Middle Ages, and places writing of this period in the context of the growth of chivalry and a new interest in the individual.
		The syllabus varies from year to year to match the interests of the students taking the module, but topics considered will include the genres of chanson de geste, in particular Le Chanson de Roland; romance, in particular the lais of Marie de France and Chrétien de Troyes’ Yvain or Perceval; and lyric poetry.
		The syllabus varies from year to year but includes at least one heroic and one mythological poem and one optional text chosn by each student individually: this may be a fanily saga, a legendary saga, a legendary saga, a history, an eddic poem, a linguistic work or a body of runic inscription.
	www.dur.ac.uk /medieval.www/uenglish.htm (1213 words)

	Activated > Books > Novels > The Perfect Ones
		The first singer sang a variation of Le Chanson de Roland, the story of the noble Roland, a Frankish knight who, several centuries earlier, had crossed the Pyrenees with Charlemagne with the intention of liberating those lands from the conquering Saracens.
		After a rather inconclusive campaign, Roland was given the command of the rearguard as the army of the Franks headed home.
		His was the story of a young knight who loved a princess who knew not that she was loved by the man. Tragically, the song ended in the young man leaving for the Crusades and dying in a far land, without the woman ever knowing of his love.
	www.activated.org /books/chapter.php?id=1.7 (3450 words)

	Warriors and Heroes
		The texts studied will be La Chanson de Roland, Le Cycle de Guillaume d’Orange and Raoul de Cambrai.
		Depending on how the interests of the group develop, Girart de Roussillon (also Lettres gothiques) or the anglo-norman Chanson de Willame (ed.
		‘La Chanson de Roland, in certain respects, is quite unrepresentative of the French chanson de geste’.
	www.rdg.ac.uk /french/fr306.htm (216 words)

	Millenium
		However, they could not possibly have imagined events such as the success of the Sung Dynasty in China; the raiding of India in 1026 by Muslims who controlled most of the northern part of the country; the defeat of the Mons by the Burmese in Myanamar; or the Norman Conquest of England in 1066.
		Nor could they have imagined such inspiring works as Le Chanson de Roland, the Nibelungenlied, the Arabian Nights, Machiavelli's Prince, and More's Utopia.
		Or that authors such as Shakespeare, Lope de Vega, Molière, Racine, Goethe, Ibsen, Renan, George Eliot, Tagore, Einstein, and the many other humanists would inspire people of their time as well as of our time.
	humanists.net /nasrin/millenn.htm (968 words)

	FictionPress.Com Profile : consecrating (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
		Une petite chanson que j'ai écrite pour la classe française.
		Je suis désolée pour les erreurs de la grammaire, et cetera.
		The first piece of significant French literature, Le Chanson de Roland, focuses on its namesake; my piece of not-so-significant and not-so-French literature is a POV exercise on Olivier, the often-forgotten friend and cousin of France’s hero.
	www.fictionpress.com /~consecrating (804 words)

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