Ganelon's Trial
John Halverson
THE Song of Roland is a Janus-faced poem, at once looking backwards to basically Germanic tradition and feudal ethos, forward the nationalistic development coherent French society. George Fenwick Jones, has recently shown in thorough persuasive detail how deeply rooted poem old ethical tradition. It consistently expresses way life shame culture. Thus virtually all important actions are motivated conditioned by opinions actors' peers, what others may think or say. will not sound horn for fear losing his reputation: En dulce France en perdreie mun los. (1054).2 He is, as Anglo-Saxons said, domgeorne. The Christian Archbishop himself uses same reasoning when exhorting barons:
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