Study Questions
How are Muslims portrayed in The Song of Roland?
Compare and contrast Roland and Olivier.
What techniques does the poet use to unify the many events of The Song of Roland into a whole?
Describe the narrative voice of The Song of Roland. How does this voice, and the relation it takes to the story it tells, affect the story?
Describe the function of the supernatural and the miraculous in The Song of Roland.
Compare and contrast the way that the Franks and the Saracens view their relation to God in The Song of Roland.
What does the trial of Ganelon tell us about the medieval conception of justice?
What does the glove signify in The Song of Roland?
What are the characteristics of the ideal knight, as inferred from The Song of Roland?
How does the poet use laisses similaires?
