Another writer who needs to read a history book. The biggest falsehood in this story is who killed Roland. It wasn’t the Muslims, it was the Christian Basques. As for placing a liege of Charlemagne in Valhalla, well, that is as strange as it gets. First off, a Christian of that era would find the imagery offensive. Second, the followers of the old Gods would not look kindly at any of Charlemagne’s men ending up in their afterlife. If Roland ended up in Valhalla, those around him would kill him all over again. Especially since Charlemagne had 4500 followers of the old Gods killed at one sitting at the massacre of Verden during the Saxon Wars.
And all this time I thought Roland was a headless Thompson gunner....
exactly — the author seems to have not heard of the Saxon wars — Hitler took the Saxon wars as valid reason for his own attack on Christianity