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** Except, of course, Marsile's previous murder of Charles' ambassadors, his plotting the treachery against Roland, and Baligant's planned invasion of Charles' kingdom and the whole West.
* [[Fridge Logic]]: Charlemagne is described as 200 years old. His sister's son Roland can't be more than 30. How exactly does that work?
* [[Marty Stu]]: There exists another ''chanson de geste'' called ''[[wikipedia:Galiens li Restorés|Galiens li Restores]]'' ("Galien the Restituted") about a [[Remember the New Guy?|son]] Oliver had with [[Special Snowflake Syndrome|a princess of Constantinople]], [[Mary Tzu|whose presence at Roncevaux helps Roland and Oliver rout the Saracens]] and who later becomes Emperor of Constantinople.
* [[Narm]]: Having the hero die not from getting killed in battle but from blowing a horn hard enough that his skull bursts is a little hard for modern audiences to take seriously.
* [[Unintentionally Sympathetic]]: The Saracens are liable to come off this way to a modern audience, especially Baligant and his men, who played no part in Marsile's treachery. YMMV, of course.
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