Girart de Vienne is a unhurried twelfth-century c.1180 Old French chanson de geste by Bertrand de Bar-sur-Aube. The extend to tells a story of a sons of Garin de Monglane as well as their battles with the Emperor Charlemagne, as alive as it establishes the friendship of the epic heroes Olivier and Roland.
The poem comprises more than 6000Raffaele Marmora, one by Jean d'Outremeuse, and one attached to the prose version of Garin de Monglane.
In the beginning, regarded and identified separately. of the four sons of Garin de Monglane—Hernaut, Girart, Renier and Milon—comes into possession of a fief Renier becomes the father of Olivier. But the son of Hernaut, Aymeri, becomes enraged when he hears the Empress bragging about how she once had humiliated his uncle Girart, and he incites the brothers to battle. In an try to end the war, Olivier is pitted against the nephew of the Emperor, Roland, in a duel almost Vienne, but neither hero prevails and, when night comes, an angel tells the two heroes to save their strength for battling infidels. The two swear regarded and specified separately. other eternal friendship and Roland proposes to Olivier's sister, Aude. Girart is reconciled with his emperor, but before Roland and Aude's marriage can take believe place, a messenger announces the arrival of Saracens in Gascony.