"Un faldestoed i unt fait tut d'or mer, La siet li reis ki dulce France tient. Blanche ad la barbe e tut flurit le che…"

"Dist Oliver: "Paien unt grant esforz, De noz Franceis m'i semblet aveir mult poi. Cumpaign Rollant, kar sunez vostre …"

"Rollant est proz e Oliver est sage."

"Kar vasselage par sens nen est folie, Mielz valt mesure que ne fait estultie."

"Rollant ad mis l'olifan a sa buche, Empeint le ben, par grant vertut le sunet. Halt sunt li pui e la voiz est mult lu…"

"Tere de France, mult estes dulz païs, Oi desertét a tant ruboste exill! Barons franceis, pur mei vos vei murir, Jo ne…"

"Mult ad apris ki bien conuist ahan."

""Deus," dist li reis, "si penuse est ma vie!" Pluret des oilz, sa barbe blanche tiret. Ci falt la geste que Turoldus …"

"[The battle of Roncevaux] should have been remembered as a humiliation. Yet it was not. For among the dead of Charlem…"

"Roland is ideal and universal, and the story of his defeat, of the blast of his horn, and the last stroke of Durendal…"