La Chanson de Roland Personnages Flashcards

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Charles le Roi

Sword: Joyeuse

A
  • empereur, le Grand, beau, riche, VIEUX
  • douce de France, vien d’Aix
  • est resté 7 ans en Espagne
  • il a conquis beaucoup (aucun personne lui résiste)
  • orgueilleux et cruel - trancher les tetes des otages (hostages)
  • Veux parler a Marsile lui meme (tres honourable)
  • moquer pour etre plus vieux de 200 ans

-rêves de prophétie: Marsile apparaît comme un sanglier(boar) et son oncle, « algalife », apparaît comme un léopard. Une référence à la trahison et au châtiment de Ganelon.

  • Charles a pleuré lorsqu’il laissé son neveu(nephew) aux ports d’Espagne

Charle’s battle cry: “Monjoie”, that’s why all the francs scream this shit for courage and honour.

  • BRO GETS FUCKING BLESSED BY GOD TO STOP DAY FROM BECOMING NIGHT
  • decides to pitch camp after killing a bunch of pagans and getting their booty after the battle
  • bro has a crucifix on his sword
  • bro got that 30 times a day colour changing armer set and spear
  • gabriel looks after him all night
  • bro gets another vision of animals killing all his francs, bears lepord and snakes, as they scream for help, he can’t help them
  • Bro fights a fucking lion
  • then bro saw a bear in chains tf
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Marsile le Roi

Gaignon (his horse)

Bramimonde (WIFE)

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  • n’aime pas Dieu
  • n’aime pas Charles - dit qu’il confondre le pays de Saragrosse.
  • demander 20 mille hommes (les sages) pour lui aider
  • Demander que Charles le Roi retour en France:
    – Ours, lions, vautres, 700 chameaux
    – Mille autours mués, 400 mulets chargés de l’or d’Arabie, 500 chars.
  • Cherch 400, 000 Barrons D’espagne en preparation
  • loses another nephew Jurfaleu le Blond’s in battle AND FUCKING RUNS AWAY LIKE A LITTLE BITCH
  • BRO RAN ALL THE WAY BACK TO Saragossa AND DISMOUNTS UNDER AN OLIVE TREE
  • BRO LOOKS AT RIGHT HAND CUT OFF BY ROLAND
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Blancandrin du Château de Valfonde

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  • sage païen
  • vaillante
  • bon chevalier
  • Meme offre son fils pour joindre les otages pour convaincre Charles de retourner en France
  • aussi veut se faire retourner les Francs en France
  • veut celebrer le retours des Francs par une fete à la Saint-Michel
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Le Conseil de Marsile le Roi (10 hommes)

ALSO IMPORTANT
(LES .XII. pers)

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Clarin de Balaguer
Estamarin
Eudropin
Priamon
Guarlan le barbu
Machiner
Maheu (oncle de Marsile)
Jouner
Malbien d’Outremer
Blancandrin

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L’armée de Charles l’empereur
20 000
(Sarrazins)

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Roland
Olivier
Sanson (kills l’almaçur) (killed by Valdabron)
Anseïs le fier (Killed by African king Son)
G’eoffroi d’Anjou - le gonfalonier
Gérin (kills Malprimes )
Gérier (kills l’amurafle)
1500 soldats Francs

  • 100,000 Francs s’inquiette pour Roland
  • theme that they often break golden shields and impale their enemy on the battleground
  • as the soldiers die, a great storm occurs back in France, earthquakes, lightning, etc.
  • THE LAST 60
  • ROLAND FINALLY SOUNDS THE OLAPHANT
  • Archbishop and Gautier de l’Hum remain after Olivier dies
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Les barons et le Conseil de Charles

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Le duc Ogier
Archevêque Turpin
Richard le Vieux
Henri (Neveu de Richard)
Acelin, le preux compte de Gascogne
Thibaud de Reims
Milon (cousin de Thibaud)
Olivier le preux et le noble
Plus de mille Francs

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Les traîtres

A

Ganelon y vint autres qui fit la trahison

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Le compte Roland
- bro got speared less than his fucking horse

Veillantif (Roland’s horse)
- bro got speared 30 places

A
  • Pas en accord, ne veux pas retourner en France
  • Sept ans en Espagne
  • Conquérant de:
    – Noples, Commibles, Valterne (KILLED BY Engelier, the Gascon from Bordeaux), Pine, Balaguer, Tudèle, Sézille
  • ri quand il nominer Ganelon pour dilivrer le message parce-qu’il pense qu’il va etre tuer
  • En colere a cause de la situation avec Ganelon
  • Trop orgueilleux, et décide de continuer à combattre les païens inquiets de sa réputation
  • Son épaix = “Durendal” (given to him by KingCharles)
  • Too much of a dumb ass that he won’t blow the olifan. (he’s still consider brave for some reason… bruh)

LA BATAILLE COMMENCE (20,000 soldiers: rearguard)
- il devien plus fiers (fiecre) que leon ne leupart

  • “Pur sun seignur deit hom susfrir granz mais”

ALL the FRANCS SCREAM “Monjoie!” For courage

  • FUCKING MASSACRES Aelroth (Neveu De Marsile), spine from back, impaled type shit. POINT ONE TO FRANCS
  • “Nos avum dreit, mais cist glutun unt tort.” (we are in the right, they are in the wrong)
  • Bro has no concern for his own safety
  • SPEAR BREAKS AFTER 15 GODDAMN HITS
  • BRO DOESNT STOP THERE, HE TAKES OUT HIS MASSIVE PENIS OF A SWORD AND CUTS Chernuble (OF THE TWELVE PEERS, BRO LASTED SECOND LONGEST) INTO TWO FUCKING PIECES, FROM HEAD TO CROTCH
  • BRO MURDERED BOTH A HORSE AND ITS WORTHY RIDER WITH HIS SWING AND SWORD AFTER GETTING PISSED

FINALLY WHEN THERE ARE ONLY 60 MEN LEFT, He blows the olifan (oliphant)

  • ROLAND IS SCARED OF BLACK PEOPLE LMAO, ONLY WHEN HE SEES THOSE BBC’s DOES HE THINK OH SHIT, WE’RE SURELY DEAD

Roland fucking faints for a bit and falls off his fucking horse upon seeing Olivier’s condition

Rolland fucking gets all his dead friends and lines them up in front of arch bishop to be blessed

Bro sees all his dead friends and his bestie Olivier, and finally loses all the energy to stand

  • BRO sees roland depressed on the ground and wants to get him water, but has lost so much blood he dies before making an acre, heart stops
  • Roland finds the energy to get up says the Archbishops Tunips final rites, such a god guy, and christian boy (never such a prophet since the apostles)
  • Bro prays to Gabriel as he lie down on death bed
  • Bro gets assaulted by some random npc enemy, but takes the fucking horn and kills the guy, smashing his head in before the guy can take his swords away
  • bro gets up a-fucking-gain and apologizes to his fucking sword Durendal. Bro tries wacking his sword on a rock but big dick Durendal takes ZERO FUCKING DAMAGE
  • As bro dies, he’s under a pine tree, facing spane

angel Chérubin
And Saint Michael of the Peril,
Saint Gabriel came with them.
They bear the Count’s soul to Paradise

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Ganelon (paratre de Roland)

Le Félon

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  • dit que Marsile le Roi est l’homme de L’empereur Charles, et que Charles tiendra toute l’Espagne
  • Accompanie la message de Charles à Saragrosse
  • Traitre de Charles et Roland
    – se venge en informant les Sarrasins d’un moyen de tendre une embuscade à l’arrière-garde de l’armée de Charlemagne, dirigée par Roland, alors que les Francs rentrent en Francie par les cols des montagnes.
    – Il besoin de 100, 000
  • sentenced to hang with 30 of his relatives
  • bro gets tied up by the head chef and cooks LMAO
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Naimes

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  • dit que le Roi Marsile n’avait rien pour lui defendre.
  • L’empereur a deja pris ses chateaux avec les machines et briser ses murs
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Olivier le brave

Halteclere (OLIVER’S massive penis of a sword)

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  • ami de Roland, mais pas aussi brave
  • Plus sage
  • demande au camarade Roland de sonner l’oliphant, afin que l’armée de Charles puisse faire demi-tour pour aider les francs en infériorité numérique.
  • Il veut que roland sonner l’olifan, puisque les autres francs de Charles puissent vien pour joindre la bataille. (instead their all going to die)
  • Oliver kills ugly ass Falsaron (Frere de Marsile), after bro tried throwing shade on France’s rep.
  • So envolved in battle, he forgot about his fucking sword.
  • cuts Justin of Val Ferree’s fucking head in two. AND INTO THE HORSE’S SPINE
  • bro doesnt want to blow the horn anymore for the king to hear, because he thinks its dishonourable
  • BRO GETS BODIED BY Marganice BY A “LANCE”
  • BRO CONTINUES SWINGING BIG DICK SWORD AROUND ON THE GROUND KILLING PAGANS
  • SCREAMS FOR ROLAND WHO COMES OVER
  • ALMOST KILLS ROLAND BECAUSE SO MUCH BLOOD LEFT HIS BODY, HE CANT FUCKING SEE
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Aelroth (Neveu De Marsile)

(Sarrazins)

A

Veux Avoir le premier opportunité pour tuer Roland

  • veux récupérer chaque portion du territoire espagnol
  • In the frontlines when battle begins against the Francs
  • Threatens to take the right arm from Charlemagne
  • BRO GETS DELETED BY Le compte Roland
  • HIS SPINE REMOVED, NECK BROKEN, IMPALED
  • “Tute l’eschine li desevret del dos,
    Od sun espiet l’anme li getet fors,
    Enpeint le ben, fait li brandir le cors,
    Pleine sa hanste del cheval l’abat mort”
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Falsaron (Frere de Marsile)

(Sarrazins)

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Premier baron qui joindre Neveu de Marsile pour attaquer Roland

si est sue la tere (and the land is his {repitition})

  • “Il tint la tere Dathan e Habirun.
    Suz cel nen at plus encrisme felun.
    Entre les dous oilz mult out large le front,
    Grant demi pied mesurer i pout hom.
    Asez ad doel quant vit mort sun nevold”
  • Bro’s an ugly ass bad dude, with apparently half a foot of space between his eyes, talk about bug-eyed. Bro was not happy to see his nephew fucking massacred.
  • Bro slipped up when he said “Enquoi perdrat France dulce s’onur!”
  • Really pissed off Olivier, when he shit talked France’s honour like that.
  • BRO GETS FUCKING MASSACRED BY OLIVIER JUST LIKE HOW HIS NEPHES GOT MASSACRED BY ROLAND

“L’escut li freint e l’osberc li derumpt,
El cors li met les pans del gunfanun”

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Balaguer (Barron de Marsile)

(Sarrazins)

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  • Corps bien proportionné et son visage est féroce et ouvert.
  • Lorsqu’il est monté sur son cheval. Il porte ses bras avec beaucoup de force.
  • Il est réputé pour son courage,
  • S’il était chrétien, il serait un très digne chevalier.

si est sue la tere (and the land is his repitition)

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Turgis de Turteluse (de Marsile)

(Sarrazins)

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Une Conte (killed by Anceïs)

  • cherche la destruction des chrétiens

si est sue la tere (and the land is his repitition)

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Curant i vint Margariz de Sibilie (de Marsile)

(Sarrazins)

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  • Bro’s a stud, the most beautiful of the pagens
  • this is the GUY, who wounds Olivier, by scraping his side.
    “Sunet sun gresle pur les soens ralïer” because the damn spear broke.
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Arcevesques Turpin

Almace is his sword

A
  • Some other French dude ready to die for King Charles

“Chrestïentet aidez a sustenir”

“Clamez voz culpes, si preiez Deu mercit” (ask god for forgiveness as you confess your sins)

  • Blessed all the Francs by God’s name before they entered battle
  • FUCKING HATES Corsablix Le Roi GUTS, SO HE ASSASSINATED THAT BITCH.
  • Also screams “Monjoie!”

“Par grant vertut si l’est alet ferir.
L’escut li freinst, l’osberc li descumfist,
Sun grant espiet par mi le cors li mist,
Empeint le ben, que mort le fait brandir.
Pleine sa hanste l’abat mort el chemin”

  • BRO IS KILLED BY FOUR Lances, thrown at him because the enemy team are bitches.
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Q

Corsablix Le Roi

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Some other Pagen idiot fighting the Francs,
Bro got deleted by Arcevesques Turpin same way the others did after bro said Charles was not coming.

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Q

Malquiant the son of African King

Salt Perdu (the best horse on the battleground, none is faster)

A

kills Anseïs

  • murdered by Turpin
20
Q

Abisme
(Sarrazins)

A

BRO IS A VILLAIN
- NEVER FUCKING GAVE A FUCK
- BRO IS EVIL AS SHIT
- LOVES MURDER

21
Q

KING MARSILE’S UNCLE Marganice

A

BRO THE KINGS UNCLE HAS BIGGER TESTICLES THAN HIM.

  • BUT HE DOES HAVE MORE THAN 50 000 black slave knights in battle
22
Q

Marganice

A

GIVES FATAL BLOW TO OLIVIER, BUT OLIVIER KILLS HIM BEFORE HE DIES.

23
Q

Duke Naimes

A

BRO WANTS REVENGE AS EVERYONE CRYING AT BATTLE FIELD

kills MALPRAMIS

24
Q

1000 nights stay back to protect the dead

Geboin
Oton,
Tedbald ofReims
Count Milon

25
Q

ebro river

A

pagens try praying to Tervagant, get ignored and drown

26
Q

Roncevaux Pass

A

main battle field

27
Q

APPOLO AND THE OTHER PAGAN GODS

A

GET FUCKING DISOWNED AND STATUES TREATED LIKE SHIT

28
Q

Rabel and Guinemant

A

replace roland and olivier

29
Q

Baligant The Emir of Arabia

A

bro is also knightly, unfortunately not a christian

battlecry: “Precieuse”

bro lost his son and brother

  • Charles kills him
30
Q

Malprimes, son of Baligant

A

asks to strike king charles first

  • bro is slaying on his white horse
  • Duke Naimes DELETES HIM
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Q

Pinabel challenges Thierry to a duel at Ganelon’s trial. Thierry kills Pinabel, convincing the Franks that Ganelon was a traitor.

A

Pinabel’s men are hanged

32
Q

End of story:

A

THey convert the queen

Gabriel - You shall invade the land of Bire,

Charles hates his life of suffering

Here ends the story that Turoldus tells.

33
Q

Blancadarin

A

Bro told marsile to give gold to charles at beginning