Roland
n.
male first name; family name; town in Iowa (USA)
Roland
Roland (
Italian: Orlando,
Frankish: Hruodland,
Dutch: Roeland,
Spanish: Roldán or Rolando,
Portuguese: Roldão or Rolando,
Catalan: Rotllan or Rotllà, Orlando is now a common name in both Spanish and Portuguese though it is originally Italian) is a character in
medieval and
Renaissance literature, the chief
paladin of
Charlemagne and a central figure in the
Matter of France. It is thought that the title character of the
12th century Song of Roland, which recounts his final stand against the
Muslims during the
Battle of Roncevaux Pass, is based on a real person who died in that battle (under different circumstances; Roncevaux was fought against Christian Basques), but the authors of most later
chansons de geste and the Renaissance epics
Orlando innamorato and
Orlando furioso made little attempt to establish historical accuracy.
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Roland (m)
n.
Roland, male first name; family name; town in Iowa (USA)
Roland
[Folklore] When in 778 the rearguard of Charlemagne's army was withdrawing from a campaign in Spain to battle a rising among the recently conquered Saxons of Germany, they were attacked at Roncesvalles by the Basques and the Gascons. The Basques and the Gascons annihilated them, and among the fallen was the Frankish commander Roland. Legend embroidered the defeat and in the eleventh century Chanson de Roland, the warrior emerged as a Christian hero overwhelmed by the forces of Islam. Proud and brave, he refused to sound his horn Olifant for reinforcements until it was too late. When he finally did sound the horn, the effort caused 'blood to flow from his mouth and burst from his forehead'. A deep cleft in the Pyrenees, some three hundred feet wide, is called Brèche de Roland. Legend has it that he cut the rocks in two with his sword Durandal when he was set upon by the Basques and the Gascons at Roncesvalles.
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