La Chanson de Roland

Sur tapis blancs s’assoient li baron,

Jouent as tables et as eschecs li viel:

Li jone juvente s’escriment d’espée.

Sus un pin, pres d’une eglantiere,

Un trone out fait tot d’or et de pierre:

Li reis i siet, qui tient dulz France la terre.

On white carpets the barons sit,

The old and wise play tables and chess;

Young youths practice swordplay.

Under a pine, near an eglantine tree,

A throne has been made, all of gold and stone:

There sits the king who rules fair France.