The Song of Roland (Dodo Press)
Chesterton, G. K. / Saintsbury, George / Scott-Moncrieff, C. K.
The Song of Roland (French: La Chanson de Roland) is the oldest remaining major work of French literature. It exists in various different manuscript versions, which testify to its enormous and enduring popularity in the 12th to 14th centuries. The oldest of these versions is the one in the Oxford manuscript, which contains a text of some 4, 004 lines (the number varies slightly in different modern editions) and is usually dated to the middle o...