01967cam a2200397 i 4500 601482214 TxAuBib 20220810120000.0 721201s1957||||||||||||||||||||||||eng|u a 58002644 9780140440751 0140440755 TxAuBib rda eng fre Chanson de Roland English. The song of Roland / a new translation by Dorothy L. Sayers. [Harmondsworth, Eng.] : Penguin Books, 1957. 206 pages : illustrations ; 19 cm. txt rdacontent n rdamedia nc rdacarrier Penguin Classics, The ; 75 Penguin classics Presents the classical epic, glorifying the heroism of Charlemagne in the 778 battle between the Franks and the Moors. 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. 20220810. CCC. Roland (Legendary character) Romances. Epic poetry, French. Historical fiction. Sayers, Dorothy L, 1893-1957, (Dorothy Leigh.) Chanson de Roland., [Harmondsworth, Eng.] Penguin Books [1957]. The Penguin Classics ; 75. Penguin classics. TXHSP