The Song of Roland Author:Leonard Bacon An apology for a new translation of the Song of Roland is perhaps not unnecessary. Several excellent versions in prose and verse already exist. It was with no view to supplanting them that the present volume was undertaken. But the writer feels certain that a work like the Song of Roland is susceptible of many interpretations. Hence he has not h... more »esitated to attempt one of his own. It is proper to indicate certain interpolations and certain deviations from the Oxford text on which the present version is based. Laisses CXIIa, CXlIb, CXIVa, CXlVb, CXIVc, CXXVa, CXXVllla, CXXVIIlb, CXXVIIlc, CXXVIIld, C4LIVa, CLIVa, are supplied from other sources than the basic text, with a view to filling up certain lacunre in the narrative. Other interpolations and deviations; are indicated in the notes. It would be impossible. to enumerate the various kindnesses shown me by others in carrying ·out this little adventure. I take great pleasure in acknowledgi
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