Author: Whitehead, Frederick [translator]
Title: La Chanson De Roland
Description: Basil Blackwell, 1951, 4th edition. Paperback, G. xx+1759pp, index, ink annotation to the first 13pp of the poem, covers alittle grubby. Paperback , no dustjacket. ¶ Whitehead's classic text of the greatest of the French chanson de geste. The poem, the Song of Roland, is the oldest surviving major work of French literature & is based upon the Battle of Roncevaux in 778, where Roland was defeated by the Basques.

Keywords: medieval literature, french literature, roland, chivalry, romance