The Official Library of JP Brown

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Description:
The Song of Roland (French: La Chanson de Roland) is the oldest major work of French literature. The story told in the poem is based on a relatively minor historical incident, the Battle of Roncevaux Pass on August 15, 778, in which the rearguard of Charlemagne’s retreating Franks was attacked. In this engagement, recorded by historian and biographer Einhard (Eginhard) in his Life of Charlemagne (written around 830), the trapped soldiers were slaughtered to a man; among them was “Hruodland, Prefect of the Marches of Brittany” (Hruodlandus Brittannici limitis praefectus).

LOCATION: BIN X