Response to “Song of Roland”
In the medieval French epic La Chanson de Roland, Charlemagne’s Christian Franks battle Marsile’s pagan Saracens in Spain. The latter have feigned defeat to trick the invaders into leaving; the formermustnow
In the medieval French epic La Chanson de Roland, Charlemagne’s Christian Franks battle Marsile’s pagan Saracens in Spain. The latter have feigned defeat to trick the invaders into leaving; the formermustnow
“If hard fate’s not to hem us in Neither must we hem ourselves in by fact. Be our setting changeless or bleak Happy chimeras are not ours to enact, Only to think—for i’ faith we’re free now If but we… Continue Reading