The Song of Roland and its Audience

Abstract

THIS PAPER WILL FOCUS upon the dating of the Oxford version of the Song
of Roland, which I maintain is in all probability a relatively faithful
copy of the hypothetical poem which Cesare Segre has labeled "omega" in
his stemma. 1 I also wish to comment in particular upon the dating of the
latter, the antecedent of the Digby 23 manuscript.