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ROWLAND. Roland, nephew of Charlemagne, is the hero of the twelfth-century chanson de geste, La Chanson de Roland. Genelon, his stepfather, betrayed the French to the Saracens, who wiped out the battalion.

The Man in Black says that he would be worse than Ganelon, who purchased the treason of Roland and Oliver, if he forgets his lady, BD 1123-1124. [Charles Olyver: Genylon-Olyver]

The name appears medially, BD 1123.


La Chanson de Roland, ed. C. Segre; The Song of Roland, ed. S.J. Herrtage.
From CHAUCER NAME DICTIONARY
Copyright © 1988, 1996 Jacqueline de Weever
Published by Garland Publishing, Inc., New York and London.

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