Chanson de Roland

As early as Le chanson de Roland we find: "Les castels pris, les cités violées."

The military prowess of Turpin, the twenty-seventh prelate here, is related in the Chanson de Roland.

Many have felt the kindred spirit of the Chanson de Roland and the granite, military monastery.

If we except the Chanson de Roland, there is no original mediaeval literature that can be compared with the Icelandic.

The eleventh century had produced the Chanson de Roland, a poem as grand and simple as a Romanesque church.