The Emperor Charlemagne in La Chanson de Roland

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             Charlemagne's close ties with God and Christianity are evident all throughout the text and can be illustrated with several examples. Most demonstrative of Charlemagne's role as divine agent on earth is the series of three dreams that come to the king during the course of the poem. "It is not strange that in a time of great danger Charles should be visited by dreams which warn him. Since he is the servant of God, he is cared for by the divine agents" (Comfort, 290). His three sets of dreams are found in laisses 56-57 (Sayers, 79), laisses 185-186 (Sayers, 148-149), and laisses 291 (Sayers, 203). The first set of dreams in laisses 56 and 57 serve both thematic and practical purposes. Charlemagne's visions, which foreshadow events to come, use symbols
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