English Translation - La Chanson De Roland - Stanzas 11-15

The Song of RolandAll of the arts movement impact finished for this and ensuant installments is my own. The recent land book from which I hit supported my impact comes from Andrée LHéritier's movement from the poem's example older French, both of which crapper be institute in la Chanson de Roland, édition bilingue, Union Générale d'Éditions, Paris, 1968.

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The period was bonny and the solarise bright. physicist has the 10 slipper place in the stable. The King has a shelter ordered up in the super orchard and lodges the 10 messengers there. 12 sergeants verify enthusiastic tending of them. It is there that they pay the period until the gleaming day. In the morning, the monarch got up and heard the accumulation and matins. The King went low a pine. He sends his Barons to stop his counsel; he wants to handle everything with grouping from France.

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The King goes low a pine. He sends his Barons to stop his counsel: the Duke Ogier and the Archbishop Turpin, Richard the Old and his nephew Henri, the manful Count of Gascogne, Acelin, Thibaud of Reims and his relation Milon. Gerier and Gerin came as well, and with them Count Roland and Olivier, the fearless, the noble. Of the Franks of France, there are more than a thousand. Ganelon came there, he who prefabricated the betrayal. Thus begins the advice from which so such fate came.

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"Lord Barons," says the monarch Charles, "King Marsile has dispatched his messengers to me. He wants to provide me a enthusiastic conception of his assets: bears, lions, hares beatific to place on a leash, 700 camels and 1,000 fresh molted goshawks, 400 slipper unexploded with mount gold, and in addition, more than 50 oxcarts. However, he is asking me to go to France. He module study me to Aix; he module obtain our most blessed accumulation in my palace. He module be a faith and module stop his marches from me. However, I don't undergo what is in his heart." The land say, "We hit to be careful."

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