Assonance seems nearly as severe a curb, although in a celebrated passage William of Malmesbury declares that A Song Of Roland was intoned before the battle commenced at Hastings.

This may take the form of a purpose ( as in Milton, who proposed " to justify the ways of God to men "); of a question ( as in the Iliad, which Homer initiates by asking a Muse to sing of Achilles ' anger ); or of a situation ( as in the Song of Roland, with Charlemagne in Spain ).

** Carmen de Prodicione Guenonis, version of the story of the Song of Roland in Latin

* Roland's sword in early 12th century French poem Song of Roland, was named Durendal.

The unseen and unheard Song of Roland had become a dim memory, until the antiquary Francisque Michel transcribed a worn copy in the Bodleian Library and put it into print in 1837 ; it was timely: French interest in the national epic revived among the Romantic generation.

Kakehashi did not learn of " The Song Of Roland " until later.

The Song of Roland, a highly romanticized account of this battle, would later become one of the most famous chansons de geste of the Middle Ages.

* c. 1095 – 1099: earliest extant manuscript of the Song of Roland

** Un premier amour, sung by Isabelle Aubret ( music by Claude-Henri Vic, text by Roland Stephane Valade ), wins the Eurovision Song Contest 1962 for France.

Among those killed is Roland, lord of the Breton March ; the 11th-century Song of Roland is loosely based on the events of this battle.

Certainly, other Bishops were depicted bearing the arms of a knight without comment, such as Archbishop Turpin who bears both a spear and a sword named " Almace " in The Song of Roland or Bishop Adhemar of Le Puy, who also appears to have fought as a knight during the First Crusade, an expedition that Odo also joined.

The Song of Roland, an Old French 11th-century heroic poem, takes the association of black skin with Saracens a step further by making it their only exotic feature.

In the Song of Roland, Ganelon is also the stepfather of the main hero, Roland ; and on the last page of The Hand of Oberon, Zelazny's Ganelon is revealed as Oberon in disguise.

* The Song of Roland.

He may also have sponsored an early version of The Song of Roland.

The tale of Roland's death is retold in the eleventh century poem The Song of Roland, where he is equipped with the Olifant ( a signalling horn ) and an unbreakable sword, enchanted by various Christian relics, named Durendal.

Several other characters in the game also take their names from the Song of Roland.

* Susan P. Millinger, " Epic Values: The Song of Roland ," in Jason Glenn ( ed ), The Middle Ages in Texts and Texture: Reflections on Medieval Sources ( Toronto, University of Toronto, 2012 ),

In The Song of Roland, Charlemagne was described as having a nightmare the night before the Battle of Roncevaux Pass.

** anonymous-La Chanson de Roland ( The Song of Roland )

The name Orlando is a translation of Roland from the 12th-century Song of Roland.

Jahrhunderts ( II ) 001. jpg | Chinese, anonymous artist of the 12th century Song Dynasty

Loquats and Mountain Bird, anonymous artist of the Southern Song Dynasty ; paintings in leaf album style such as this were popular in the Southern Song ( 1127 – 1279 ).

Bart D. Ehrman referred to a work by an early anonymous Christian writer ( perhaps Hippolytus, a Christian leader in Rome around 200 AD ) who in a commentary on the Old Testament book Song of Songs, wrote that Jesus first appeared to the women at the tomb.

In fact it was published in South Africa, in a wartime leaflet, with an anonymous English translation of the text, as " Lili Marleen: The Theme Song of the Eighth Army and the 6th Armoured Division ".

Loquats and a Mountain Bird, by an anonymous painter of the Southern Song Dynasty ( 1127 – 1279 ); small album leaf paintings like this were popular amongst the Gentry ( China ) | gentry and Scholar-bureaucrats | scholar-officials of the Southern Song.

Loquats and a Mountain Bird, by an anonymous Chinese art ist of the Southern Song Dynasty ( 1127 – 1279 ).

In the medieval period, the choice of verse form was generally dictated by the genre: the Old French epics (" chanson de geste ", like the anonymous Song of Roland, regarded by some as the national epic of France ) were usually written in ten-syllable assonanced " laisses " ( blocks of varying length of assonanced lines ), while the chivalric romances (" roman ", such as the tales of King Arthur written by Chrétien de Troyes ) were usually written in octosyllabic rhymed couplets.

Probably dating from the Southern Song dynasty ( 1127-1279 ), this anonymous text presents a simple and concise discussion of internal alchemy ( neidan 內丹 ).

The name Roland, references to his slughorn ( a pseudo-medieval instrument which only ever existed in the mind of Thomas Chatterton and Browning himself ), general medieval setting and the title childe ( a medieval term not for a child but for an untested knight ) suggest that the protagonist is the paladin of The Song of Roland, the 11th century anonymous French chanson de geste, among other works.

In 83, the Dous further submitted false anonymous accusations against the Consorts Liang's father Liang Song ( 梁竦 ), causing him to die in prison.

French poet Paul Verlaine's " Chanson d ' automne " (" Autumn Song ") is likewise characterised by strong, painful feelings of sorrow.

In 1996, a song in Breton represented France in the 41st Eurovision Song Contest, the first time in history that France had a song without a word in French.

* The Song of Joan of Arc poem-English translation w / original French

The first theme song used from 1966 to 1970 was an orchestration of " The Silly Song " by Jimmie Haskell ; however, the version used on the show is not the same one released on the LP ( Jimmie Haskell's French Horns, Vol.

Deborah Anderson sang on her father's solo album Song of Seven, and more recently has sung for the French electronica band Télépopmusik on the album Angel Milk ( released 2005 ); she also works as a photographer.

Rogers also contributed the Song of Manasses in the Apocrypha, which he found in a French Bible printed in 1535.

" ( which shot to number one on Billboard and remained in the Top 10 for 25 weeks ), " I Wanna Be Loved ", " There Will Never Be Another You ", and the inspirational " The Three Bells " ( the first recorded English version of the French composition ), along with several solo recordings with Patty, including a cover version of Nat King Cole's " Too Young ", " It Never Entered My Mind ", " If You Go ", and " That's How A Love Song Is Born ".

The opera attended by the family is Carmen, by French composer Georges Bizet ; the song that Bart mocks is a famous aria called the Toreador Song.

( English and French are, and in the Eurovision Song Contest it is mandatory to provide commentary in at least one of those languages )

His name is composed in Hebrew of the same three consonants as a root speculated by people to have originally meant " breath ", because rabbis postulated one of its roots thus, also " waste ", but is used in the Hebrew Bible primarily as a metaphor for what is " elusive ", especially the " vanity " ( another definition by the rabbis of medieval France, Rashi in specific from his translation into Old French ) of human beauty and work e. g. Hevel Hayophi ( He-vel Ha-yo-fi ) vanity is as beauty from the Song of Songs of Solomon.

Notable in the composition of the music is the variety of styles used by Lloyd Webber, including parodies of French ballads (" Those Canaan Days "), Elvis-inspired rock and roll (" Song of the King "), western (" One More Angel In Heaven "), 1920s Charleston (" Potiphar "), Calypso (" Benjamin Calypso ") and disco (" Go, Go, Go Joseph ").

There are nine extant manuscripts of the Song of Roland in Old French.

Early editors of the Song of Roland, informed in part by patriotic desires to produce a distinctly French epic, could thus overstate the textual cohesiveness of the Roland tradition.

* Roland, the hero of the Song ; nephew of Charlemagne ; leads the rear guard of the French forces ; bursts his temples by blowing his oliphant-horn, wounds from which he eventually dies facing the enemy's land.

The French black metal band Peste Noire used a fragment of the Song of Roland as lyrics for their song ' La Fin del Secle '.

* Old French Audio clips of a reading of The Song of Roland in Old French

# Brain The Dog — The Song ( with French vocals )

" Hoffman wrote several pop songs with which Klaus is closely identified: " The Nomi Song ", " Total Eclipse ", " After The Fall ", and " Simple Man ", the title song of Nomi's second RCA French LP.

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French author Gilles Leroy wrote a fictional autobiography called Alabama Song ( 2007 ), it won the Prix Goncourt, France's highest literary honor.