Chanson de Roland

[ French shahn-sawn duh roh-lahn ]

noun

1. English The Song of Roland, a chanson de geste (c1100) relating Roland's brave deeds and death at Roncesvalles and Charlemagne's revenge.

Example Sentences

They'll copy out, illustrate, learn by heart and recite - in front of the class - poems ranging from La Chanson de Roland, an epic from the 11th Century, to poems written just a few months ago.

From BBC

Chanson de Roland, your position is absurd.

From New York Times

Just as Arthur was eclipsed by his companions, so Charlemagne’s vassal nobles, except in the Chanson de Roland, are exalted at the expense of the emperor, probably the result of the changed relations between the later emperors and their barons.

From Project Gutenberg

The analogy of the French epic, the Chanson de Roland, favours the belief that there was some nucleus of fact.

From Project Gutenberg

The most instructive, perhaps the only instructive, parallel is to be found in the French “chansons de geste,” of which the Chanson de Roland is the earliest and best example.

From Project Gutenberg