# The Song of Roland

Canonical: https://www.bookquiver.com/w-s-merwin/the-song-of-roland/9780375757112

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- Book: [The Song of Roland](https://www.bookquiver.com/w-s-merwin/the-song-of-roland) ([The Song of Roland.md](https://www.bookquiver.com/w-s-merwin/the-song-of-roland.md))
- Authors: [W. S. Merwin](https://www.bookquiver.com/w-s-merwin)
- Publisher: modern_library
- ISBN: 978-03-7575-711-2
- Pages: 160
- Published: 2001-02-13
- Language: en_US
- Binding: Softcover

## Description

A contemporary prose rendering of the great medieval French epic, The Song of Roland is as canonical and significant as the Anglo-Saxon Beowulf. It extols the chivalric ideals in the France of Charlemagne...