Gender Masculine
Scripts როლანდ(Georgian)
Meaning & History
From the Old German elements hruod meaning "fame" and lant meaning "land", though some theories hold that the second element was originally nand meaning "brave" [1].Roland was an 8th-century military commander, serving under Charlemagne, who was killed by the Basques at the Battle of Roncevaux. His name was recorded in Latin as Hruodlandus. His tale was greatly embellished in the 11th-century French epic La Chanson de Roland, in which he is a nephew of Charlemagne killed in battle with the Saracens. The Normans introduced the name to England.
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Roland at Roncesvalles by Alphonse-Marie-Adolphe de Neuville (1883)Categories
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Sources & References
- Drosdowski, Günther. Duden Lexikon der Vornamen. Mannheim, 1968, page 178.
