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The Primitive Prise d'Orange

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  02 December 2020

Raymond Weeks
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The existence of a primitive Prise d'Orange, now unhappily lost, is better attested than that of any lost poem of the Geste de Guillaume. Indeed, there are more references to this poem than to the majority of the poems still extant in the Geste.

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Research Article
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PMLA , Volume 16 , Issue 3 , 1901 , pp. 361 - 374
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Copyright © Modern Language Association of America, 1901

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References

Note 1 in page 361 Acta Sanctorum, Maii, vi, p. 802.

Note 2 in page 361 Ch. Révillout, Etude historique et littéraire sur l'ouvrage latin intitulé Vie de Saint Guillaume, Paris, 1876; Romania, vi, 467.

Note 1 in page 362 Duchesne, Hist. Normannorum Scriptores, p. 598.

Note 2 in page 362 Cited by Jonckbloet, Guillaume d'Orange, ii, p. 129.

Note 3 in page 362 Edited by Isola, two vols., Bologna, 1877–1887. With regard to Andrea, see Ulysse Chevalier, Répertoire des sources hist. du moyen âge.

Note 4 in page 362 Gautier, Epopées, iv, pp. 30 ss., 317, 341, 374, 438, 439, 476; Ph. Aug. Becker, Der Quellenwert der Storie Nerb., Halle, 1898, pp. 49, 50; also for more favorable opinion: A. Jeanroy, Romania, xxvi, p. 190; O. Densusianu, La Prise de Cordres, Soc. des Anc. Textes, p. viii, note, pp. xi, xii; Rolin, Aliscans, pp. ixv, lxvi.

Note 1 in page 363 See article on “The Messenger in Aliscans,” in the Child Memorial Vol., Ginn & Co.; Romania, xxviii, p. 126 ff.

Note 1 in page 364 Cf. Gautier, Epopées, IV, p. 374.

Note 2 in page 364 I am thoroughly of the opinion of L. Willems in this regard: L'Elément Historique dans le Couronnement Loois, Gand, 1896, p. 11, note 2.

Note 1 in page 366 The critics have seen in these events only an imitation of Aliscans: Gautier, Epopées, iv, p. 397; A. Jeanroy, Romania, xxvi, p. 6, note 1. Observe, however, that the summary of the lost Prise, given by M. Jeanroy on pp. 5, 6, follows closely the Nerbonesi. Far from these events having been pillaged from Aliscans, this epic is the plagiarist.

Note 1 in page 367 Romania, xxvi, pp. 5, 6.

Note 1 in page 370 If Guillaume loses Vivien in Aliscans, he loses Ruberto and Guidone in the account given in the Nerbonesi: vol. ii, p. 396 ff.

Note 2 in page 370 Not to complicate matters, no mention is made here of the fact that the version of Aliscans which preceded its fusion with the Renoart must have had a hero other than Renoart to play the grand rôle.

Note 3 in page 370 Les Epopées, iv, p. 392.

Note 1 in page 371 Several mss. of the Enfances Guillaume speak of the taking of Orange, but do not mention that of Nimes, which is surprisingly late testimony of the newness of the legend concerning Nimes. For instance, the following lines from the Enfances, cited by Jonckbloet, Guillaume d'Orange, ii, p. 146:

Par moi orres la chanchon de Guillaume,

Com il conquist premierement Orenge,

Et com il prist dame Guiborc a feme.

Guillaume says to the king in Aliscans (3118–3120):

Tu me juras, ke l'oirent mi per,

Ke s'en Orenge m'asaloient Escler,

Ne me fauries tant com peusies durer.

No mention, of course, of Nimes.

Note 1 in page 374 See the excellent article by M. Jeanroy, already cited: Romania, xxvi, pp. 5, 6, 10, 21.