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Quotation from The Song of Roland by Anonymous
“Charles the King, our Lord and Sovereign, Full seven years hath sojourned in Spain, Conquered the land, and won the western main”
The Song of Roland, I, trans. C. K. Scott-Moncrieff (1919)
The opening laisse frames Charlemagne as Christian sovereign before the betrayal plot begins.
Citation: "Charles the King, our Lord and Sovereign, Full seven years hath sojourned in Spain, Conquered the land, and won the western main" — Anonymous, The Song of Roland, I, trans. C. K. Scott-Moncrieff (1919). (id the-song-of-roland-q1)
Portrait: Grandes chroniques Roland, Simon Marmion, Public domain.
