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    <body><![CDATA[There's not much to say about The Song of Roland.  It's a great epic, of course.  Dorothy L. Sayers' translation is a little more poetic than accurate.  She also disconcertingly changes the spellings of character names for metrical reasons or else for assonance.  That's confusing.  The introduction ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/65349970">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[The Song of Roland, while about Charlemagne (800 AD) , is really a story of the Crusading era (ca. 1100 AD).  Einhard, Charlemagne's biographer, notes in passing that the battle of Roncesvalles was fought against Basques, but in the Song, the enemy is the Saracen.  And while some of the Saracens are...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/49885086">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[This book is an epic old French poem from nine or ten centuries ago.  It recounts the betrayal of the French by the traitor Ganelon, the destruction of the ten French champions at the Battle of Roncevaux Pass, and the vengeance of Charlemagne.  There are a couple epic battles, and for some reason Ch...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/46204832">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Reads like the poetic version of 300.  Characters are introduced, given a back story and killed in the same verse. <br/>e.g.  So and so was a great night if were he not a pagan<br/>Roland took his sword and cut him from the top of his jewel covered helmet and split him to the waist.<br/>How can y...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/49196603">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[A wonderful tale of bravery and hubris.  The characters here are two dimensional and bigoted, but that's to be expected, they are midieval Christians.  Nontheless a great tale.]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[It's not surprising that this work's greatest descendants are satires. It's often difficult to take the simplistic pro-crusade sentiment seriously. Each time one of the Knights yelled to some dead Muslim &quot;We're right, you're wrong!&quot; I laughed. When you're debate opponent is already slain, ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/48669458">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[I had to read The Song of Roland for medieval lit, mostly because it's an epic of the period, while the other medieval texts are all romances -- I assume that later we'll have to make some comparisons and draw some contrasts. It's interesting to me because of my background with the classical epics -...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/33961839">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[I've noticed that when I don't really enjoy a book, I dance around the issue, pointing out all the good aspects of the work, reluctant to in any way put down any form of written word. But I'm supposed to be reviewing these books, and I'll lose my credibility if I don rosy-colored glasses every time ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/33654361">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[As this is the premier song of deeds, I have presented for your edification the medieval rules of battle such as they are presented here:<br/><br/>1. <em>The Defiance</em> -- slinging insults at each other. For example: &quot;Fair France this day shall find her honour flown!&quot;<br/><br/>2. <em>The Encount...</em><a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/24397118">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Look for the Dorothy Sayers translation with her introduction. In it, she makes the case that <em>Roland</em> is far more than just a patriotic epic about an (almost) invincible French warrior. She notes that past critics typically considered the Roland part of the story to be the real poetry, with the secon...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/5794639">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[&quot;Like old-fashioned Westerns, the chansons de geste were packed with action, and their heroes tended to steer clear of sentimental entanglements with women.&quot;  -- Hollister, C, Warren.  Medieval Europe: a short history.  1964.  3rd edition. N.Y.: John Wiley &amp; Sons, Inc., 1974.<br/><br/><a rel="nofollow" target="_blank" href="http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/basis/roland-ohag.html" title="http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/basis/roland-ohag.html">http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/basis/rol...</a>...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/73388968">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[The Song of Roland is one of the great French works of the 12th century, illustrating a fascinating anachronistic mix of 12th-century storytelling and values with an 8th century tale.  Though the battle scenes are rendered with all the pulse-pounding vivid prose of a Wi-Fi installation instruction m...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/354827">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[I can't really tell if this was a hero's poem or a critique on hero's poems.  Roland, the titular character, makes a huge blunder in being overbold, an act that gets him both chewed out by his best friend as well as killed.  Besides the fact that he's Charlemagne's nephew, Roland doesn't DO anything...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/23159543">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[It was interesting to plug through this great classic for the first time, but upon comparing translations at our teen lit discussion (one of the many benefits of working with a group) I realized taht this was an inferior translation. It does give you the gist of the story and it wasn't terribly hard...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/6789867">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Lukewarm. I know it's supposed to be a big deal, but from the short year or so ago that I read this, I don't recall much. Good news is, that means it wasn't incredibly horrible, but not incredibly great...]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[I read this after watching Boromir's death in <em>The Fellowship of the Ring</em>, and my older sister said: &quot;That's a lot like Roland.&quot; Well, I liked Boromir, so I read <em>Roland</em>, and now he's joined my list of personal heroes. ]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Some of this is fairly hard reading for the modern reader but it certainly is important from an historical perspective and there are some compelling images.]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[We just read an excerpt from the Norton Anthology of World Literature, but surprisingly, my children liked it.  The poem is definitely melodramatic, and they rolled their eyes at the death scenes, but they tend to like big dramatic epics and this has all the essential elements. ]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Perhaps this is not the most politically correct story ever written, but I'm sure Roland has learned to blow his olifant sooner.]]></body>
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