Editions of La Chanson de Roland
Bédier, Joseph, ed. La Chanson de Roland. Paris: l’Edition d’Art, 1927. Dual language edition and prose translation into modern French.
Brault, Gerard J., ed. The Song of Roland: An Analytical Edition. Vol. 2. University Park: Pennsylvania State Press, 1978. Edited text with facing translation.
Calin, William, ed. La Chanson de Roland. New York: Appleton-Century Crofts, 1968.
Jenkins, T. A. ed. La Chanson de Roland. Boston: D. C. Heath, 1924. The Anglo-Norman spellings are edited out and replaced by “standard” Old French spellings.
Jonin, Pierre, ed. La Chanson de Roland. Paris: Gallimard, Collection Folio, 1979. Includes a French translation.
de Laborde, Alexandre, ed. La Chanson de Roland: Reproduction phototypique du Manuscrit Digby 23 de la Bodleian Library d’Oxford. Paris: Société des Anciens Textes Français, 1933. Facsimile of the Oxford manuscript.
Mortier, Raoul, ed. Les Textes de la Chanson de Roland. 10 vols. Paris: Editions de la Geste Francor, 1940–44.
MS. Digby 23, Part 2. Early Manuscripts at Oxford University: Digital Facsimiles of Complete Manuscripts, Scanned Directly from the Originals. Oxford Digital Library. Available at http://image.ox.ac.uk. Retrieved on May 11, 2011.
Short, Ian, ed. La Chanson de Roland. 2nd ed. Paris: Le Livre de Poche, 1994.
Whitehead, Frederick, ed. La Chanson de Roland. Bristol, Eng.: Bristol Classical Press, 1993. Reissued with notes and introduction by T. D. Hemming.
Selected Manuscripts
Assonantal
Oxford manuscript Digby of the Bodleian Library, 4002 lines (O, primary source).
Manuscript IV, Library of St. Mark at Venice 6012 lines (V4)
Rhymed
Manuscript VII of the Library of St. Mark’s at Venice (V7)
Some Critical Studies
Brualt, Gerard J. The Song of Roland: An Analytical Edition. Vol. 1: Introduction and Commentary. University Park: Pennsylvania University Press, 1978.
Cook, Robert Francis. The Sense of The Song of Roland. Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 1987.
Duggan, Joseph J. A Concordance of the Chanson de Roland. Columbus: Ohio State University Press, 1969.
———. The Song of Roland: Formulaic Style and Poetic Craft. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1973.
Haidu, Peter. The Subject of Violence: The Song of Roland and the Birth of the State. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1993.
Jones, George F. The Ethos of The Song of Roland. Baltimore, MD: The Johns Hopkins University Press, 1963.
Kibler, William W. and Leslie Zarker Morgan, eds. Approaches to Teaching The Song of Roland. New York: Modern Languages Association of America, 2006.
Kinoshita, Sharon. Medieval Boundaries: Rethinking Difference in Old French Literature. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2006.
Pensom, Roger. Literary Technique in the Chanson de Roland. Genevé: Droz, 1982.
Uitti, Karl D. Story, Myth, and Celebration in Old French Narrative Poetry. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 1973.
Vance, Eugene. Reading The Song of Roland. Englewood Cliffs, NJ: Prentice-Hall, 1970.