Turoldus martin

Turoldus of Norman origin.
Author of The Song of Roland · About the Author · Works by Turoldus · Associated Works · Tagged · Common Knowledge · Members · Reviews.
Turoldus or Turold is the name traditionally given to the author of the 11th-century French poem The Song of Roland.

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Turoldus or Turold Is The Name Traditionally Given To The Author of The

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The document provides information about French and Russian literature lessons. It discusses the Song of Roland and The Hunchback of Notre Dame in the French literature section. In the Russian literature section, it analyzes the short story "God Sees the Truth But Waits" by Leo Tolstoy, which is about a merchant named Ivan Dmitrich Aksionov who is wrongly imprisoned for 26 years. It also provides a character map of Aksionov, describing him as brave, courageous, noble, a good role model, and respectful.

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About the Author

Includes the names: Turold, Turolde, Anonymous

Works by Turoldus

Associated Works

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I like when non-fiction authors unintentionally give insights into their own lives and times when writing about other times. Reading the intro, my catch-phrase became "Who hurt you, Dorothy?" due to her regular asides on the behaviour of "modern" man (we're talking about the 1940s here).

Anyway, I looked her up on Wikipedia and it turns out it was men. Men hurt Dorothy.

Anyway, the substance of the poem. I enjoyed the translation, the rhythm and assonance, it was pleasing to read. The quality show more of the content was probably just fine in its time, recited aloud to audiences hungry for a heroic tale of national pride. However it lack the nuance craved by the modern analytical reader - the heroes are all objectively right, the villains are objectively villainous, everyone including his enemies knows it to be true that Roland is the greatest knight in Charlemagne's entourage. There's no variety of perspective or motive for t

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Hereward the Wake

11th-century English rebel against the Norman Conquest

"Hereward" redirects here. For the college in Coventry, see Hereward College.

For the novel by Charles Kingsley, see Hereward the Wake (novel). For the 1965 TV series, see Hereward the Wake (TV series).

Hereward the Wake
Hereward fighting Normans from Cassell's Illustrated History of England (1865)
Born	c. 1035 Lincolnshire, England
Died	c. 1072 (aged 36–37)
Other names	Hereward the Outlaw and Hereward the Exile
Movement	English resistance to Norman Conquest

Hereward the Wake (Traditional pronunciation /ˈhɛ.rɛ.ward/,^[1] modern pronunciation /ˈhɛ.rɪ.wəd/^[2]) (c. 1035 – c. 1072) (also known as Hereward the Outlaw or Hereward the Exile) was an Anglo-Saxon nobleman and a leader of local resistance to the Norman Conquest of England. His base when he led the rebellion against the Norman rulers was the Isle of Ely, in eastern England. According to legend, he roamed the Fens, which covers parts of the modern counties o