The Song of Roland is a poem based on the Battle of Roncevaux Pass in 778, during the reign of Charlemagne. It is the oldest surviving major of French literature

The Song of Roland is a poem based on the Battle of Roncevaux Pass in 778, during the reign of Charlemagne. It is the oldest surviving major of French literature

The Song of Roland is a poem based on the Battle of Roncevaux Pass in 778, during the reign of Charlemagne. It is the oldest surviving major of French literature.
CXXV…. Then canters forth with all his great army.Canters before a Sarrazin, Abisme,More felon none was in that company;Cankered with guile and every felony,He fears not God, the Son of Saint Mary;Black is that man as molten pitch that seethes;Better he loves murder and treacheryThan to have all the gold of Galicie;…CXLIII… And Ethiope, a cursed land indeed;The blackamoors from there are in his keep,Broad in the nose they are and flat in the ear,Fifty thousand and more in company.These canter forth with arrogance and heat,Then they cry out the pagans’ rallying-cheer….Such discipline of Sarrazins he’ll see,For one of ours he’ll find them dead fifteen;CXLIVWhen Rollant sees those misbegotten men,Who are more black than ink is on the penWith no part white, only their teeth except,Then says that count: “I know now very wellThat here to die we’re bound, as I can tell….
This is a short documentary of the Moorish contributions to Europe. It also highlights the darkness which surrounds European perceptions of this period and the Moorish people.
Blackamoors is a decorative art form that arose as a result of the 800 year Islamic domination of Iberia. In this art form