Category: Book The Song Of Roland

The mighty Emperor of the Franks, Charlemagne, has been fighting the Moors in Spain for seven long years. In the devastating war he has won lots of Spanish castles from them. His faithful army was undefeatable, sieging even the strongest fortresses and defeating the biggest armies. Only one of his enemies still doesn’t want to…

Song of Roland In The Song of Roland, Roland “embody an especially pure form of the spirit of feudal loyalty to one’s overlord” (Lawall 1104}. The websites describe Charles the Great as a father figure and Roland as a loyal and honorable subject. In the introduction of The Song of Roland one is told of…