2006-08-19 22:43:55 · 12 answers · asked by Shiela 1 in Arts & Humanities ➔ Books & Authors
It's from France, and its authorship is famously difficult to sort out. There are tons of different versions of it floating around. It was first written sometime in the 12th century c.e., and different people have modified it for their own purposes since that time.
2006-08-19 22:51:05 · answer #1 · answered by Drew 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Aug 20, 2006
The Song of Roland | Author Biography
Little is know about the anonymous author or authors of the Song of Roland. The oldest surviving manuscript, the Oxford Digby 23, is signed "Turoldus" and written in Anglo-Norman, a language predominant in England following the Norman invasion from France in 1066. Few people outside the clergy in medieval France and England were literate, so Turoldus may have been a monk. One school of thought argues that the tale shows signs of being composed orally, perhaps copied down by Turoldus and other scribes when the story was performed at a feast or celebration. The extent to which the...
2006-08-19 23:24:16 · answer #2 · answered by Mary Eda 2 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Above answerer was right Medieval France. La Chanson De Roland
2006-08-19 22:50:01 · answer #3 · answered by inzaratha 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The Song of Roland (French: La Chanson de Roland) is the oldest major work of French literature. It exists in many different manuscript versions, which testify to its enormous and enduring popularity in the 12th to 14th centuries. The best and oldest of these versions is the one in the Oxford manuscript, which contains a text of some 4004 lines (the number varies slightly in different modern editions) and is usually dated to around 1080. The epic poem is the first and most outstanding example of a chanson de geste, a literary form celebrating the legendary feat of a hero that flourished between the eleventh and fifteenth centuries.
2006-08-20 01:15:42 · answer #4 · answered by chrchrbrt 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋
The Song of Roland is an old French anonymous epic which. This was written to provide France a hero just like Spain's El Cid Campeador and the others.
If you want to know more about this, go to these sites
http://www.sparknotes.com/lit/songofroland/
http://www.gradesaver.com/classicnotes/titles/roland/
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Song_of_Roland
2006-08-19 22:57:12 · answer #5 · answered by klay 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Medieval France, Author unknown. The link below gives a complete translation.
2006-08-19 22:49:06 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
http://search.yahoo.com/search?p=what+country+is+the+origin+of+the+song+of+roland+and+who+is+the+author&ei=UTF-8&fr=FP-tab-web-t500&x=wrt
Hope the above website can help you.
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2006-08-19 22:50:38 · answer #7 · answered by Nickname 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
its a medieval song from FRANCE but the author is unknown...
2006-08-19 23:13:05 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
France! Google before you ask.
2006-08-19 22:49:47 · answer #9 · answered by nitro2k01 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
It is French and it is an anonymous poem aurally transmitted by minstrels.
2006-08-19 23:27:26 · answer #10 · answered by Cristian Mocanu 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋