The Song of Roland — Places
Where things happened. Only places the text names are listed.
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18 places
Sarraguce
13 events · Laisses I–VI, Laisses XIX–XXIV, Laisses LXVII–LXXII, Laisses CLXXXVII–CXCII, Laisses CXCIII–CXCVIII, Laisses CXCIX–CCIV, Laisses CCLXV–CCLXX
- Laisses I–VI · Marsilies and his council decide to send envoys to Charles with olive branches proposing peace.
- Laisses XIX–XXIV · Charles commissions Guenes to carry his answer to Marsilie.
- Laisses LXVII–LXXII · Within three days — Marsilies summons hundreds of thousands for war.
- Laisses CLXXXVII–CXCII · Marsilies lost his right hand and swooned.
- Laisses CLXXXVII–CXCII · In the first year — Looking back, the poem tells that in the first year of the war Marsilies sent Baligant a message asking him to bring aid.
- Laisses CXCIII–CXCVIII · Baligant sends Clarifan and Clarien to offer Marsilies aid and demand his homage.
- Laisses CXCIII–CXCVIII · Marsilies tells Baligant's messengers that Charles has slain his men, laid waste his land and broken his cities.
- Laisses CXCIII–CXCVIII · Marsilies offers to yield his claim over Spain to Baligant if Baligant frees it from the Franks.
- Laisses CXCIII–CXCVIII · Marsilies gives the messengers the keys of Sarraguce’s gates to carry to Baligant.
- Laisses CXCIX–CCIV · Marsilies yields his land and Sarraguce to Baligant.
- Laisses CCLXV–CCLXX · all that night — Charles occupies Sarraguce, and Bramimunde yields up her towers.
- Laisses CCLXV–CCLXX · Passes the day — Charles takes Sarraguce and has its pagans converted, while Bramimunde is taken captive.
- Laisses CCLXV–CCLXX · Passes the night — Charles binds Bramimunde as a prisoner, vowing her no harm.