The Song of Roland

Loewis

Family: Franks · Role: Charles's son · First appears: Laisses CCLXV–CCLXX

Life events

  • Alde learns from Charles that Rollant is dead, refuses his son Loewis in exchange, and dies at Charles's feet.(Laisses CCLXV–CCLXX · 📍 Aix)
    • With: Alde Charles Rollant
    • “Sister, dear friend, of a dead man you spake. I'll give you one far better in exchange, That is Loewis, what further can I say; He is my son, and shall my marches take. Alde answered him: ‘That word to me is strange. Never, please God, His Angels and His Saints, When Rollant's dead shall I alive remain!’ Her colour fails, at th' feet of Charlemain, She falls; she's dead.”

Laisses CCLXV–CCLXX

  • parent: Charles “That is Loewis, what further can I say; He is my son, and shall my marches take.”

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