"Rolandskvadet" - Medieval Song of Roland
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- This is just a small excerpt of the 4000 lines contained with in the ballad of Roland, a Frankish nobleman and army commander returning from Iberia, where he and his men were ambushed and killed. It is worth noting that this song was originally written in French and not Norwegian, where the first record of this song in French was in the 1100s, while the Norwegian translation sprung up in the late 19th century.
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A Norwegian rendition of a French epic written in England about a Breton fighting in Spain in service to a Germanic king likely born in Belgium.
Truly a beautiful piece of European heritage.
are you sure he was Breton ?
Even if he was military governor of the Breton March, it doesn't mean he was Breton. The Breton March was even against Brittany
Killed by the Basques
Charlemagne wasn’t German but whatever
Battleling against basques
@@NB-or8rs Thats why he said germanic and not german
For those wanting context for the some of the lines:
*_The Heathens fell at Roland's sword, like plants fall for a good scythe_*
The name of Roland's sword, Durandal, begins with a French dur- stem, meaning "hard". It breaks down in Frankish into durant + dail, renderable in English as "strong scythe" or explained in more detail to mean "a scimitar or scythe which holds, up, resists, endures".
The legend said that before dying he threw Durandal in the air with so much force that it broke a cliff. You can see the sword of the legend in the cliff in the church of the french city of Rocamadour
@@gaspardfrileux1816 Don't forget that before that, he tried to destroy the sword, to prevent it from falling into Saracen hands, by swinging it at a rock, but due to its neigh indestructible nature and unnaturally sharp edge, the swing created the hundred foot gash now called Roland's Breach. It's also said that Durandul was either made by Wayland the Smith or given by an angel. Either way, Durandul is a legendary sword whose might could not be matched by any other blade.
SILENCE HEATHEN, STRONG SCYTHE
I remember hearing that name “Durandal” in a movie and it’s also the name of a French anti-runway bomb. Of course inspired by the sword. en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Matra_Durandal
Probably his sword was a reverse falchion since thats a typical french medieval sword which looks like the form of a scythe.
The Frankish Empire has always fascinated me. It just feels so mysterious and alien, just one step away from being a more more familiar Europe. In addition, it spawned these almost semi-legendary heroes like Roland and Charles Martel. Thanks for uploading this piece of history!
@Eru Clusivus They were way more trash
Charles Martel lived decades before the Carolingian Empire was established
@@come7850 That's true, I was referring to that entire era in a broader sense
@@MechaRommel Ah ok, sry I misunderstood your use of "empire"
@@come7850 Should hade said "era" in retrospect :)
Roland : so you are telling me even vikings gonna sing my epic death...
all of us : yeah
After all Franks and Norses and even Saxons were all brothers and shared same Germanic roots and culture :)
Widukind king of saxons : yeahhhh well about that ....
Well, Ogier the Dane was one of Charlemagne's generals and was Norse.
I believe it is part of Karlamagnussaga written for King Haakon V of Norway that also depicted Roland and the Paladins. I may be wrong though.
Edit: the description actually says that this is a 19th century translation to Norwegian, so nevermind.
@@sinaaafshar4154 Yeah... The saxons werent treated that well...
Just occurred to me that the death of Boromir is an homage to Roland.
Tolkien took a lot of inspiration from medieval folklore and stories
Oh shit your comment changed my vision of LOTR xD Gondor may be the Frankish Empire !
That's kind of what I've always thought. For some reason, I've always thought of Gondor as Frankish and Rohan as Saxon.
@@caedmonnoeske3931 Rohan is apparently Tolkien's attempt at making a Saxon cavalry-culture and they are supposed to act a lot like the saxons so you might well be right there
@@caedmonnoeske3931 I always saw Gondor as the Byzantine Empire and Arnor as the Holy Roman Empire. The crowning Aragorn is essentially the union of the Western and Eastern Roman Empires, or in his case, of the Western and Eastern Numenorean successor kingdoms. Rohan is inarguably an equestrian version of Anglo-Saxon society.
"Roland blew his eyes out of his skull, so hard that he penetrated the enemy's too."
*METAL*
Hardcore Roland.
LOL
ROLAND THE MADLAD
*Thats Brutal*
brutality
For the Americans, the trees speak Vietnamese. For the Russians, the snow speaks Finnish. For Rolland, well, the mountains spoke Basque.
So overcome in large numbers and ambush having such a bad aim that the general manages to call the reinforcements that will come to destroy you is an achievement?
@@seamuswbiggerarmalite3379 it's a badass way to die.
I speak basque
@ⵎⴻⵙ ⵓⵎⴰⵣⵉⵖ Yes?
@axel axel Proto-germanic
Germany: Charlemagne is Germain
France:No is French
Charlemagne:Calm my kids
Charlemagne then proceeds to slaughter more saxons.
@@aoishiro6622 yes
Austria: Charlemagne founded our land!
The holy roman empire - charlemagne was our daddy, hes the reason we are 100% holy 100% roman and 100% an empire.
Most inhabitants of medieval and modern day France are mix of the Romans, Celts and Germanic franks
Somwhere in the French Pyrénées, you can see the mountain cut in the middle by Roland, nammed la Brèche de Roland.
yes
@@sauronmordor7494 Sympa nos montagnes
@@ricotaline oui
Problem: The brèche de Roland and Roncevaux are not at the same place *at* *all* .
@@pyrenees2695 Roland hit so hard with his sword that he sliced through space-time, creating this anomaly.
It's obvious.
"Roland blew so hard he penetrated the enemy's head too"
Madlad
What a way to die
Absolute chad
@@louiswain9139 giga chad
Ultimate Chad
Ultra Chad
This is a short Norwegian ballad about Roland. The Old French epic poem "Chanson de Roland" ("Lay of Roland") is a completely different and far longer text. The Norwegian ballad may be inspired by the epic poem but is a piece of art in its own right.
Thank you so much for pointing this out! So sad that the text under the video is misleading.
I wonder if Warren Zevon got the idea for his song "Roland the Headless Thompson Gunner" from this song. The Roland from Zevon's song was Norwegian.
this song is fire bruh, the chorus is catchy af and i don't even speak no norwegian
Virgin EU Flag:
Generic, twelve little stars, unoriginal blue, average rectangle, lame
Chad Frankish Oriflamme:
Unique, one blazing sun, beautiful red, super long, epic
Yeah the EU flag is one of the worst flags
@@isaacrivera5452 Eh, it's OK in my opinion.
BeryAb ok virginvs
@CharlyTDM07 saudi arabias flag pretains it culture/language/religion in its flag, the EU flag literally is just 12 stars on blue background
@CharlyTDM07 eu had so many cool flags that they could make due to europes cultural diversity but, they just lazily put stars in a blue background, saudi had no choice as it is an islamich holy site or sumthin
Summary: French general blows a horn so hard his eyes pop out like a cartoon.
summary of your summary: *debatable*
hE WAs gErMan
@@alphaundpinsel2431 most certainly *not* French at least.
Well he was not German or French he was Frankish Wich is Basically German French people from The Netherlands
@@Unbottled.Water23 Well basicly Germanic (not German) from the Benelux region, so yes almost right.
Fun fact the man who betrayed roland was said to be torn apart by wild horses
His name was Ganelon. He later appeared in Dante's Divine Comedy, frozen in the Ninth Circle of Hell for his treason.
When you are so cool that some Norwegians sing about you.
legendary *catholic paladin*
I was at first confused as to why it was in Norwegian, but honestly it sounds so cool that now I know why.
Because Norsemen also converted to christianity
@@Pilgrim98 during the times of Roland they were not and were potential enemies
@@f-man3274 yes, but not when this song was likely made
I was driving in Norway this summer and it was so epic listening to this song while driving through the Norwegian nature with fjords lakes mountains and forests
I mean Norwegians are Germanic so the song sounds similar
@@tiktokmemecompilation6749 This song is in Norwegian though, what did you think it was?
@@RaffieFaffiei thought for a second it was frankish which is also germanic lol
Imagine you'd have listened to it in the Basque country at the French-Spanish border.
Props to anyone that recorded this song in the medieval times
so true bestie, verum est
YOOO I HAVE BEEN SEARCHING FOR THIS SONG FOR SO DANG LONG!
I heard it like 8 years ago and loved it, and recently I forgot it, and lo and behold it appears in my recommendations! I heard it a few times, and just wanted to keep playing it, but lost it and never got its name, this is amazing, I love this song!
I always love the way you place your graphics of the maps and flags, it always emphasizes the majesty of the story being told.
Chad Roland with maidens on his saddle vs Virgin heathens.
Roland probably easily died, this song is propaganda so don't think it was as heroic and bloody, the Frankish army was in a narrow mountain passage so I doubt Roland was even expecting this
@Bog Danoff always has been
@Bog Danoff I know, too bad Muslim generals don't have as much recognition, you have a lot of good onea
@@someoneyeah7683 it wasn't muslims who attacked the franks
@@GorrilazWarfare maybe they weren't all Muslims, but the Attack was spearheaded by the Emirate of Corodba most notably Suleyman Al Arabi
Probably my favorite song out of this entire channel. An absolute gem within this gold mine of a channel
You know you had an epic death when the vikings sing about it.
in 1200 the vikings become christian
and roland last stand was in 800
@@seamuswbiggerarmalite3379 ok?
@@seamuswbiggerarmalite3379 778* so during the Viking age
Not the vikings,this is nordwegean not viking languece.
@@seamuswbiggerarmalite3379 Viking became a Christian 1000
The Oriflamme looks so good.
@Eru Clusivus Based Petain
VIVE PÉTAIN!
@@unclesam5230 ummmh....non
Oula non
@Floron Saches cher ami, que tu as la plus saine des visions sur cet obscur personnage.
How worthy you have to be for the descendants of the Vikings feel the need to write (or rather translate) a song to your glory! As a Frenchman I find it kinda rewarding and refreshing.
Takk skal du ha 🤘
yes
Unlike the english the franks can actually hold their own
Content de voir d'autres français apprécier l'héritage des Francs
@@asgeer5351 chacun devrait sereinement connaître et apprécier son héritage, ça réglerait déjà pas mal de soucis dans le monde selon moi.
C'est en sachant d'où on vient qu'on peut savoir où on va... ou qqch comme ça!!!
@@isaacrivera5452 exept for paris a couple of times
I am here because of "A Knight" from "Reverse: 1999" xD
Note, this empire refined foundations of France, Germany, Netherlands, Italy, Switzerland, Croatia, Austria, Czechia, Belgium, Hungary and Slovakia. They basically founded West Europe.
Addendum: the map of Frankia in the video does not depict Charlemagne’s empire at its height.
How did a 1200 year old song become of one of my favourite songs
It’s older
@@tiktokmemecompilation6749 it's not that old actually, it's a song that's been passed on since the 1200s
It's really good
Although Roland lived in the 8th century, the song of Roland (which was actually a poem, one of the first using the "French" language of the time and not Latin) dates from the central Middle Ages (11th-12th centuries).
Same
One of the closest times we've been to unite Europe into a one sole strong nation.
There was Rome.
We're working on it.
Caesar, Napoleon and the German mustache guy :
Joder soy suscriptor
Hola Dio, que pasa.
Hello dio, what's up?
The Norwegian ballad of "Roland and Magnus King" is an "adaption" or smaller version of the much longer Chanson de Roland. Ingen here actually has not done his homework completely, since this song indeed does have its own tradition going back to the middle ages. It was specifically collected by folklorists from the region of the upper Telemark.
My own translation of the full text (only some of which features in the songs you find on YT):
Part I
I.
Six of my dukes are at home
guarding the fair gold,
the other six are in Heathen lands
to test their cold steel!
II.
They hoisted up their sails
high up on the mast,
thence they sail towards Heathen lands
for two work-weeks.
III.
The oars and anchors
gripped the white sand:
there was Roland, cousin of the King,
and believe me that he was the first on land.
Part II
IV.
There was the army of the blueskinned men (Moors)
which filled the vallies and hills:
«there is a battle for Christian lands
the shine is gilding the helm!»
V.
There was the king of the blueskinned men,
who seemed to have lived a long time:
«They have a hard tim Christmen
those who have captured our treasure.
VI.
Can we not our treasure
from this army retrieve,
then we shall do battle on the Roncevaux meadow,
fighting for two days and three!»
Part III
VII.
Fourth came the blueskinned mens warband
which cast a shadow over the sun,
all the men were then frightened,
and bid Roland blow the horn.
VIII.
Roland answered with wrath,
he was froathing at the mouth:
«I shall deal such mighty blows
that it will be talked of until doomsday.»
IX.
They did battle upon the Roncevaux meadow
in two days and three;
the heathens fell to Rolands sword
like wheat before a sharp scythe.
X.
They did battle upon the Roncevaux meadow
and they were all filled with wrath,
the Heathens fell before Rolands sword
like snow melting in the hillsides.
Part IV
XI.
Fourth came the blueskinned mens warband
which cast a shadow over the sun,
all the men were then frightened,
and bid Roland blow the horn.
XII.
Roland answered them mocking,
from him ran blood and froth;
«I shall deal such mighty blows
that it will be talked of until doomsday.»
XIII.
They did battle upon the Roncevaux meadow,
the blood ran like gushing rivers:
the horses could not walk upon the ground,
without tredding on corpses.
XIV.
They did battle upon the Roncevaux meadow,
tired fighting men and women:
the sun could not shine brightly
due the steam of human blood.
Part V
XV.
Fourth came the blueskinned mens warband
which cast a shadow over the sun,
all the men were then frightened,
and bid Roland blow the horn.
XVI.
He sets the horn before blodied lips
and blew hard into it;
the sound travels over hill and mountain
it tore both belts and seams.
XVII.
Again he sets the horn before blodied lips,
and blows into it with wrath;
it makes estates and farmsteads quake
nine days journey away.
XVIII.
This was Roland, the kings cousin,
blowing into the gilded horn:
it shattered walls and marbled stone
and Magnus King’s (Charlemagnes’) towers.
XIX.
Fourth went the sound of the horn,
it sang in many a swordblade -
Roland blew his eyes out of his skull,
so hard that he blew out the heathens’ as well.
XX.
There was Magnus King,
he brust out in tears:
«What has happened to my cousin?
I hear his horn being sounded!»
Part VI.
XXI.
That was Magnus King,
who hurried on his journey:
dead lay Roland defeated
and held in his hands his sword.
XXII.
«Go two among you out
and take with you some men,
and see if you can retrieve
Dvergedolg from Roland’s hand!»
XXIII.
Back came the warriors,
and reported thus:
«we could not take
Dvergedolg from Roland’s hand.»
XXIV.
Fourth stepped Magnus King
with a great sadness:
Roland shoved the sword from himself,
as if he wished the King to have it.
XXV.
Fourth stepped Magnus King
with a great sadness:
Roland shoved the sword from himself,
as if he wished the King to have it.
Part VII
XXVI.
Home came the Magnus King.
They were all beset by grief -
their ship was filled by silver and gold,
the heathens they were dead.
XVII.
«Why do you sit here so saddened?
So drunk yet all without lust?
Have you all come from the sickbed,
...»
XVIII.
«You shall not, Queen, wonder
about our spellbound sorrow»:
fallen has Roland, cousin of the King,
and there-upon ninety warriors.
thanks for bringing up the full version, it saved me.
lol is like comparing LOTR(original) with rings of wokeness(this song)
2:16 For those who have come because of A Knight from Reverse: 1999
Yeah, I like A Knight and his singing a lot, so thank you!
Fellow time keepah
A Knight dose have a very nice if disembodied singing voice.
I came from 4 games
Mostly Punishing Gray Raven Roland and Library of Ruina Roland
But also FGO Roland and Reverse Knight
Ja
I find myself re-listening to the song often and feeling the urge to go absolutely feral every time the line "Ria Dei Ut Or Franklandet" comes up and saying "Med Dyre Dros I Sadel" before I can catch myself lol. Very good rendition, imho
Imagine Germany and France united
Charlemagne: « what do you mean « imagine » ? »
Add Northern Italy and I'm in
Well I mean That’s been my dream since I learned of Roland
Rational i could become a real superpower and a challenger to usa or ccp but i think it wouldnt be that stabil of state cause There language difference and Historical Heritage (ww1, ww2, franco-prussian and so on)
Perfection!
Here in Brazil we have a city named after him: Rolândia/PR. In the city there is even a statue of Roland.
Cidade da Rol* kkkk
😍😍😍
Man sometimes southern american countries are more appreciative of European history than actual Europeans
Salve conterrâneo!
cool very cool
Эх, какие были раньше песни и люди. Звучит мощно и красиво!
I imi možno po nastoäşçemu nasladitsa tolıko seiças.
Kastati eto karta imperii Karla velikogo? (Francia, Ispan, German, Italıan)
Точно!
@@todaryotaiikohtwasyaladela2035она самая
I once saw a spindly man carrying a stone larger than his head upon his back. He stumbled beneath the weight, shirtless under the sun, wearing only a loincloth. He tottered down a busy thoroughfare. People made way for him. Not because they sympathized with him, but because they feared the momentum of his steps. You dare not impede one such as this. The monarch is like this man, stumbling along, the weight of a kingdom on his shoulders. Many give way before him, but so few are willing to step in and help carry the stone. They do not wish to attach themselves to the work, lest they condemn themselves to a life full of extra burdens. I left my carriage that day and took up the stone, lifting it for the man. I believe my guards were embarrassed. One can ignore a poor shirtless wretch doing such labor, but none ignore a king sharing the load. Perhaps we should switch places more often. If a king is seen to assume the burden of the poorest of men, perhaps there will be those who will help him with his own load, so invisible, yet so daunting.
Once ...this King did come . Indeed he did do this in plain sight for all to see. The multitude hid the burden in guilt, carefully cloaked in shame . Rather than set this burden down in the presence of the King....for fear of exposure. They proudly carried thier own burden. Then they mocked and killed this King. And likewise to those that set their burden down in the sight of this King to help Him .
Can we get more medieval music this goes hard
Not gonna lie the Frankish Empire feels like something out of Lord of the Rings
Exactly lol
Boromir is based on Roland.
Tolkien said the middle Earth was meant to be Anglo saxon England without the “corrupting norman influence”. Whatever that means 😅
roland would find a wife that can sing and cook
@@lsthero5863It’s pretty clear what it means.
ballad of Rolland: i'm about to end this iberian's whole career.
basque pagans: I'm about to end this man's whole career
@Ferdinand De Beaujeu Not all of us, the last pagans where burned by Castille in 1610. And the last pagan monarch becomes christian at 922, 144 years after Roncesvaux battle.
@Ferdinand De Beaujeu There was a Bishop in Leire, so at less a good porcentage was christian at the time, yes.
@Ferdinand De Beaujeu i suspect the same too in that aspect. And doing a research, i found something interesant. at 859 Bjorn Jarmsidak takes the second king of Pampaluna kidnaped, and the rescue was paid with the booty of Roncesvaux. So there we have the normans with Rolands chest
@Louis Garidel Im basque
Today, August 15 2023, is the 1,245th anniversary of Roland's stand.
When the norwegians make a aong about the french, fighting the basques, after returning from a crusade against the arabs in spain.
It wasn't a Crusade, a crusade is a really specific kind of war.
It was the Reconquista.
@@pitioti by germans !?
@@uniuni8855 by europeans
Im basque
@@uniuni8855 The Salian Franks in Gaul were more related to Old Dutch, than German.
ok based.
This ballad is the very definition of based. Roland refuses to blow the horn because he thought it cowardly. Only when he is facing a certain death does he blow the horn to get revenge on his enemies. Incredibly based
@country baller I merely described the plot of this part of the ballad
whats based mean?
@@nutpeg6915 the opposite of cringe
@Mershikov Based on what? Kek
Go back to the reddit anon
This may be the best song I’ve ever heard in my fucking life, glorious!
I loved the part where he said "its black silencing time" and black silenced all over the place
FOR GOD'S SAKE, CAN'T I JUST ENJOY A SONG WITHOUT YOU LOR BRAINROTS TO SPAWN LIKE KILLING FLOOR ZEDS?!
Blæs mæ på kuken
That's that and this is this
Roland, repovestire th-cam.com/video/_XZVfkcWrHA/w-d-xo.html
@AceTekkkk yeah yeah shuddup
Roland was such a Chad , an Italian writer in the renaissance made an entire story about him. It is called "the Furious Roland" (or "l'Orlando Furioso" in Italian)
The last stand of Boromir is an homage by Tolkien to Roland
came here from r1999, didnt expect A Knight lore to be this deep
Library of Ruina Roland fans: First time?
That's that, and this is this.
This is actually quite a bop. Great stuff!
Charlemagne's empire looking thicc.
From the blood of innocent Saxons.
The map doesn't show the empire at it's maximum, just the size of the kingdom during the expedition to Spain. We see he haven't invaded Saxony yet neither the most eastern lands and the one duchy in southern Italy.
@@EiriktheNordAndersen-ju4gl hey that was the only way he could convert the saxons to christianity
@@rennor3498 Was it really necessary to go on a blood rage? Shows how peaceful christianity really is.
@@EiriktheNordAndersen-ju4glbefore charlemagne was even born the Frankish kings had tried for centuries to peacefuly convert the saxons but it never worked and the saxons continued raiding christian lands so in the end the only way left was by total conquest and forced convertion
It’s one of my favourite songs for 2 years
As someone who speaks Afrikaans (from South Africa), it feels great to recognize some of the words.
Honestly when I listened to this song for the first time I thought it was some early medieval version of French or Frankish or something like , my mind couldn't bare the fact that this is norwegian
everybody gangster till roland gets the horn
Till hills start speaking Basque
This is a really worthwhile endeavour! Keep up the good work.
whoever sees this comment
may you live forever
και εσύ τέτοια βλέπεις 1 η ώρα το βράδυ ? lol
@@vasjrgatsis13 em how did you.....?
Χαῖρε βασιλεύ τῆς Ρώμης ἐν Κωνσταντίνου πόλει.
@@vasjrgatsis13 α οκ, το όνομα σου πάντως δεν θυμίζει ελληνικό
will do
This video was blocked when I got the notification but now I can see it 2 days later
There is a French Anti-air tank that is named Roland. I don't know if its because of the man of the song but that's a point.
Roland is very popular in France
Roland is a french name so yes, it likely comes from him.
The song of Rolland is a french epic afterall.
@@wertyuiopasd6281 in germany we often have statues of roland in the cities , who is seen as a protector of the people that live there
anti air? should be the heaviest tank
but mouse is a good name
When you slice through mountains with a sword and blow so fiercely in your horn than your chest burst open, you know you are the ultimate badass.
This sound soooo medieval, i love it.
@Nathanael Marco Hartanto Of course i know ;=).
@Nathanael Marco Hartanto
My comment may be confusing, but i was meaning like "this is so medieval, i love it" :D.
Charlemagne in different languages
🇻🇦 : Karolus Magnus
🇫🇷 : Charlemagne
🇬🇧 : Charlemagne
🇪🇸 : Carlomagno
🇵🇹 : Carlos Magno
🇮🇹 : Carlo Magno
🇩🇪 : Karl der Große
🇱🇺 : Charlemagne
🇳🇱 : Karel de grote
🇸🇪 : Karl den Store
🇩🇰 : Karl den Store
🇳🇴 : Karl den Store
🇮🇸 : Karlamagnús
🇫🇮 : Kaarle Suuri
🇮🇪 : Charlemagne
🏴 : Charlemagne
🏴 : Siarlemagne
🇵🇱 : Karol Wielki
🇭🇺 : Nagy Károly
🇷🇴 : Carol cel Mare
🇷🇺 : Карл Великий
🇬🇷 : Καρλομάγνος
🇹🇷 : Şarlman
🇮🇱 : קרל הגדול
🇸🇦 : شارلمان
🇮🇷 : شارلمانی
🇮🇳 : शारलेमेन
🇨🇳 : 查理曼大帝
In chonese charlemagne is call new york city?
Chinese*
This guy blows an horn so so hard that someone's eyes popped out too
Change your profile picture
No i like it your sucks
@@HaribBinShahbaz yours is racist
@@dylantrashmint8379 I summond trash
@@dylantrashmint8379 only makes his profile pic better
This is norwegian.
-Sincerely a Norwegian
Tullenorsk!
It is not gamalnorsk. It is an archaic form of a dialect from the center of Norway.
@@cantsnourmans9720 My father told me it was.
this is modern norwegian , not gammerlnorskt
@@TTaiiLs It was my father who told me it was, i had never heard of this language before i found this video.
May Roland and his brave men rest in eternal glory, and may the Horn blow forever in warning to the invader to inspire fear while giving comfort and courage to the descendants of the Franks.
They were the invaders
Yeah, nah, he got rightfully killed for burning and sacking Iruña, the city of the basques
Based Roland. If my memory serves me true, the epic poem “Song of Roland” took place circa 800s during the time of the Carolingians and was inspired by a battle they fought with Muslims even though they call their enemies “heathens” in the poem. I think it was the battle of Tours/Poiters no?
It was based off of the battle of Roncesvalles also known as Roncevaux pass
It' the Roncevaux battle's and not Poitiers, these two battles are different 😉
It wasn't against the muslims but the Basques.
Duhjxkxkkxh BASEDDD CRINGE BASED!
This battle was fought against several Basque guerilleros because the Carolingian pillaged Catalonia and the Basque country, with the help of the Ummayads levies were formed and in a narrow mountain passage approximately 65% of the Frankish army was dead, this song is just propaganda, Roland probably didn't even last that long in his desperate stand, Maybe this battle was not that legendary, maybe it was just unprepared Franks butchered by the guerilleros, but we will never know
"Roland blew the eyes out of his skull so hard that he penetrated his enemy's too" OOF
I thought that it said medieval song of poland
Me too
Poland cannot into song ;-;
same
@@lucas49342 Don't be so sure :v : th-cam.com/video/azh5SPmcJ_A/w-d-xo.html
@@LuisRincon-wr4dm Gosh! "Oi Šermukšnio" is a Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth song?? I didn't know that!
Qatar: I have the longest flag
Franks:..'
Kirghiz Flag: Father?!
Can we get the french version.
Found the full song.
In French.
th-cam.com/video/mezoG-QVYsI/w-d-xo.html
EleftheriaCube cool
i would die for an frankish version
@Ferdinand Quartant i know still would like an old frankish version
@@HyperGnome Merci
This is a Classic. Montjoie Saint Denis!
@Codreanu careca Oreo??
I used this song as inspiration for my hobgoblin paladin in DnD. He's the type of guy to sing war hymns in battle, and one of his favorites is a goblish rendition of Roland's song.
How is it in goblish?, I'd like to hear it
@@christopherpowell3166
I mean, I didn't go out of my way to write an entire fictional language for him. I just make sure to emphasize it whenever he speaks in his native goblish tongue. I imagine that it sounds a bit like some cross between old Norse and Maori, but apart from that I got nothing.
I am a gallo-frankish descent.
English people are my brothers. They has similar origins : Celtic (Briton) and Germanic (Angles and Saxons) as French are Celtic (Gaulish) and Germanic (Frankish)
:)
Non, la perfide albion ne sont pas nos frères.
Les vendéens ont trahi par leur alliance avec les anglois. Même si je les admire, et j'aime beaucoup la monarchie. Intelligence avec puissance étrangère = niet.
Spanish are in part Celtic too
You have more in common with Spanish
@@eljulencio4152Frankish means he, in fact, is equally related to the Theetch peoples.
"Toil and risk are the price of glory, but it is a lovely thing to live with courage and die leaving an everlasting fame." - Alexander the Great
Any medieval song that starts with ''Sex'' is a Rocking Banger!!
Six de mes vassaux restèrent au pays, pour garder l'or précieux
Les six autres allèrent en terres païennes, pour mettre le fer à l'épreuve".
-Ils ont quitté les terres franques avec de belle femmes en selles
Soufflez dans l'Olifant à Roncevaux.-
Ils ont levé les voiles de soie en haut des mâts.
Puis ont navigué jusqu'en terres païennes en deux semaines
-Ils ont quitté les terres franques avec de belle femmes en selles
Soufflez dans l'Olifant à Roncevaux.-
Ils se battirent à Roncevaux deux à trois jours ;
Les païens tombèrent sous l'épée de Roland comme l'herbe sous une bonne faucille.
-Ils ont quitté les terres franques avec de belle femmes en selles
Soufflez dans l'Olifant à Roncevaux.-
Ils se battirent à Roncevaux emplis de courroux;
Les païens tombèrent sous l'épée de Roland comme la neige qui tombe sur les champs
-Ils ont quitté les terres franques avec de belle femmes en selles
Soufflez dans l'Olifant à Roncevaux.-
Ils se battirent à Roncevaux pleins de fatigue
Le soleil ne pouvant briller à cause d'un brouillard de sang humains.
-Ils ont quitté les terres franques avec de belle femmes en selles
Soufflez dans l'Olifant à Roncevaux.-
Roland mit la corne à sa bouche ensanglantée et il tonna avec furie;
Alors la terre, les pierres se brisèrent et il résonna par de là les mers et les champs.
-Ils ont quitté les terres franques avec de belle femmes en selles
Soufflez dans l'Olifant à Roncevaux.-
Jusqu'ici atteignit le son de la corne et résonna dans chaque fourreaux;
Roland souffla si fort que ses yeux sortirent de son crâne et se plantarent dans les orteils enemies
-Ils ont quitté les terres franques avec de belle femmes en selles
Soufflez dans l'Olifant à Roncevaux.-
Le roi Charlemagne rentra au pays et tous ceux qui l'accompagnèrent s'assirent épuisés.
Les bateaux étaient remplis d'or et d'argent et tous les païens étaient morts
-Ils ont quitté les terres franques avec de belle femmes en selles
Soufflez dans l'Olifant à Roncevaux.-
Je ne traduirais pas "blow" par un impératif, mais je pense que cest une erreur de traduction (ça aurait probablement du être un "blew", ils ont soufflé, ils soufflèrent
Bravo pour ton travail de traduction 👍
(j'ais recommencer la vidéo pour lire ta traduction en même temps )
Ci falt la geste que dl6qk1iw3q declinet
*Glory to Roland, enemy of pagans!* ⚔
VIVA!
uh...
HAIL?
Enemy of Muslims
*angrily screems in Estonian*
Actually he fought against the Basques not Muslims.
Screeches in Norwegian *SKÅL* time for death
Reminds me a bit of Poul Anderson's novel "Three Hearts and Three Lions", about a Danish engineer who time-travels back to the time of Charlemagne and eventually learns that he is the "Holger Danske"/Holger the Dane who was one of Roland's companions.
This is why the virgin Ganelon’s betrayal of the chad Rolland will forever be in the top 10 anime betrayals of all time!
153 heathens have viewed this song.
Une infime partie de nôtre gigantesques et glorieux héritage !!
✝️ ⚜️ 🇨🇵 ⚜️ ✝️
One of the most epic songs ever created
this sounds badass
well well look at ye!
If you ever need a french military song you should definitly check "La Strasbourgeoise"
I always shred a tear when hearing it. It is incredibly sad and yet beautiful
Yeah but this is Frankish. The french don't haver much in common with the Franks besdies the name.
@@abeedhal6519 You should see it as it was back then, it's more complicated than that. Nationalism, national sovereignty, patriotism, all of this was created centuries later. I refer you to a comment from Sigmen which is very interesting on this subject: "Saying the Franks are not the French is like saying than Sviar are not Swedes. Indeed, modern populations aren't the old ones, and this apply to every populations. However, the identity perception is else: the distinction made from "Franks aren't French" is a modern distinction. In Middle Age, none made such distinction. Charlemagne was considered to be a French all along Middle Age. What you call the "French identity" is more complex that one can understand as there is many grades of identity, and this through the entire pre XIX centuries periods. For example I remember studying the memoirs of Blaise de Monluc, captain from Gasconny in the XVI century. He had two levels of identity: One where he considered himself a Gascon this would be a "cultural/national (in its etymological sense "native from somewhere") /provincial" identity and inside this level "French" are people living in what is now called "Ile de France" (but then called "land of France"), and one where he is French which we would call "racial" as they call themselves from "the race of the Franks", and this one is related to old bloodline in one part, and the fact to be subject of the king of France. Those two identities are to be found all along Middle Age.
What you call the "french identity" in fact began almost with Clovis reign, as very quickly in Merovingian kingdoms, the status of "Franks" shifted from a "ethnic" identity to a politic one. Were Francs (not Franks in fact) the subject of the king of the Francs. The "national" identity indeed had a time to implement itself into the south and the west (Britanny), however, the "french identity" is the same thing, as both are same words.
The Song of Roland which was wrote in the XII century was part of the said "Matter of France" opposed to the Plantagenet "Matter of Brittany" (legend of King Arthur and else). None in Europe contested the idea that the French and Francs were one of the same people then. Only you are doing this distinction... AAaand your assertion is only valid for a very brief period of time, for the frankish identity wasn't built on neither language nor ethnicity, but on politic and close bloodline. A nobleman living in Neustria and speaking latin considered himself as much french (or francs, but those words are synonymous anyway since it is THE SAME WORD) than a nobleman living in Austrasia who spoke tudesco (the name they gave then to what WE call the "frankish language"). They did not saw themselves as distinctive people."
@@abeedhal6519 Mostly stinky repubuclian right wing liberals got nothing to do with franks , la gueux !
@@Goatisme calm the hell down flamer
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That banner is badass
It's the "Oriflamme" (the "Flame of Gold") and it was the war banner of the King of France during the Middle Ages.
Unpopular opinion: I think he’s trying to say that they left the frankish lands with fine maidens in their saddles, and to blow the olivan’s horn in the rocevaux meadow.
nah they are saying that they left the frankish lands with fine maidens on their saddles and to blow the olivans horn in the rocevaux meadow
Saint-Denis oriflamme
;à
La chanson de Roland(Roland’ın şarkısı) 12.yy’a ait bir şiirsel anlatı. Charlamagne’ın Lombardiya, Bohemya ve o sırada Mağriplerin elindeki Kuzey İspanya’yı istila ederek Frank Krallığı’nı gelişletmesine yol açan seferi kutluyor. Pagan Saksonlar hristiyanlaşacak, Charlamagne Cermen kabilelerinin liderliğinden Atlantik’ten Babyera’ya, Kuzey Denizi’nden Akdeniz’e kadar uzanan Frank İmparatorluğu’nu denetleyen kişi konumuna gelcekti. Papa tarafından imparatorluk tacı giydirilecek, kiliseyle yapılan resmi ittifak ortaçağa hükmeden bir Kutsal Roma İmparatorluğu fikri oluşacaktı.
Literally one of the most epic songs I have ever heard
Roland, a name which means "Famous land".
Hrothland in Frankish.
Да! Я так долго ждал её!
yes
As someone with a basque great grandfather I am glad my blood, so so far back, was able to produce the conditions in which this song would see the world during our time. To think basques could do what visigoths couldn't.... overcome the undefeated warrior spirit of the franks, and I say this as someone who identifies with the franks more than anything, they were the first barbarian Catholics.
Tengo Sangre asturiana, Algo de vasco tendré por ahí
As someone with a Grandfather with Basque ancestors but mainly, from a Provençal Family, I feel a bit happy to have a bit of Basque's blood in my veines !
Came here because of Reverse 1999, this song is very nice to listen to XD
It's funny when you discover that part of ancestors were basques and others were franks, and so Rolandskvadet is a song about some ancestors of yours killing the other part LOL
I’m swedish and i can understand 70% of what he’s saying
I have listened to this 10 times already
"while the Norwegian translation sprung up in the late 19th century." this is untrue... It has existed as a norwegian ballad since the medieval times
the "chanson de Roland" was kinda a best seller at that time, most musician and fool knew it, and it was present in most christian european court
The song of roland is a french epic though.
@@wertyuiopasd6281 yeah i know
Notre sacro-saint Oriflamme, Montjoie Saint-Denis !
They burnt down my hometown of Aachen, but at least they make fine music.
Aachen isn't very nice tbh, i went there a few weeks ago and it seems pretty horrible
@@CaesarsLegion1 You don't even know how horrible cities really can be.
@@yogatonga7529 Girls were nice, but i guess i'm too spoiled to enjoy Aachen for what it is
Frosty so from what i hear aachen is like the kryvyi rih of germany
@@ashaler__ The streets are tight, and it's not that nice looking. Even the malls there were badly designed
Poor Roland, he blew his eyes when blowing the horn.
Poland: who are you
Roland: I am a different country, I just have an R in my name