Roland
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Roland was a Frankish military leader under Charlemagne who became an epic hero and one of the principal figures in the literary cycle known as the Matter of France. The historical Roland was military
The eight phases of The Song of Roland in one picture
Composed in 1098, the first page of the Chanson de Roland (Song of Roland)
Roland statues, like the one in Bremen, became popular symbols of municipal independence during the Middle Ages.
Roland's Breach
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Roland's Breach is the name of a natural gap, 40 m across and 100 m high, at an elevation of 2,804 m in the Pyrenees on the border of Aragón, northern Spain, and Hautes-Pyrénées, southwestern France.
Roland's Breach as seen from the French side.
Roland blows his olifant (ivory hunting horn) to summon help in the midst of the Battle of Roncevaux as portrayed in The Song of Roland with Roland's Breach in the background
Roland's Breach as seen from the peninsular side
Roland's breach with some people passing through