Sunday Storytelling: The Song of Roland

Sunday Storytelling is a new selection of free-write space here in the No Kayfabe Zone. Rather than reviews or discussions about anything specific, Sunday Storytelling seeks to either be a (semi-regular) place to talk about favorite books and characters from the past or provide sample chapters of our own fiction.

A beautiful piece showing the entirety of The Song of Roland

Today, we're talking about the first great poetic chanson de geste epic, The Song of Roland, also known in its native French as La Chanson de Roland. More specifically, I want to talk about the main character and why I feel that Roland himself is one of the most magnetic pieces of medieval heroism.