{"id":3301,"date":"2005-12-29T17:09:44","date_gmt":"2005-12-30T01:09:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.kith.org\/journals\/jed\/2005\/12\/29\/3301.html"},"modified":"2005-12-29T17:09:44","modified_gmt":"2005-12-30T01:09:44","slug":"song-of-childe-roland-ballads","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/2005\/12\/29\/song-of-childe-roland-ballads\/","title":{"rendered":"Song of Childe Roland Ballads"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>One of the problems with getting a lot of your history from fantasy novels is that it's easy to conflate things with similar names.<\/p>\n<p>I just finally worked out that these things are not directly related to each other:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Song_of_Roland\">The Song of Roland<\/a>, an 11th-century epic poem that fictionalized a battle of Charlemagne's army in 778. (You can read the whole <a href=\"http:\/\/omacl.org\/Roland\/\">poem<\/a> online in English if you're so inclined, all 291 verses of it.)<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Childe_Roland_to_the_Dark_Tower_Came\">Childe Roland to the Dark Tower Came<\/a>, a poem by Robert Browning, the protagonist of which may be the same Roland but the connection is unclear. (This <a href=\"http:\/\/www.web-books.com\/Classics\/Poetry\/Anthology\/Browning_R\/Childe.htm\">poem<\/a> is also available online, and is much shorter than the Song of Roland. And this one was at least part of the inspiration for various other works.)<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Childe_Harold%27s_Pilgrimage\">Childe Harold's Pilgrimage<\/a>, a poem by Byron that has nothing to do with either of the above. (You can read this <a href=\"http:\/\/website.lineone.net\/~ssiggeman\/chp\/\">poem<\/a> online too, of course.  It's got well over 400 verses.)<\/li>\n<li>The <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Child_ballads\">Child Ballads<\/a>, a set of folk ballads collected by Francis James Child in the late 1800s; they have nothing at all do with any of the above.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>One of the problems with getting a lot of your history from fantasy novels is that it&#8217;s easy to conflate&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[57],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3301","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-verse"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3301","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3301"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3301\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3301"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3301"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3301"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}