Gaydon (chanson de geste)


Gaydon is a chanson de geste written in about 1230 AD. It recounts the story of Thierry, friend of Charlemagne in the Chanson de Roland, for whom "Gaydon" is another name.[1]: 405  The text was first published in Paris in 1862 by François Guessard [fr] on the basis of three manuscripts in the Bibliothèque nationale de France (at that time called the Bibliothèque impériale); of these, two date from the thirteenth century, and the third from the fifteenth.[2]: xix 

References

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  1. ^ Susan E. Farrier (2019). The Medieval Charlemagne Legend: An Annotated Bibliography. London: Routledge. ISBN 9780429537394.
  2. ^ François Guessard, Siméon Luce (1862). Gaydon, volume 7 of Les Anciens Poètes de la France. Paris: Librairie A. France.

Further reading

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  • Wilhelm Reimann (1881). Die Chanson de Gaydon, ihre Quellen und die angevinische Thierry-Gaydon-Sage (in German). In: H. Perschmann, W. Reimann, A. Rhode (1881). Beiträge zur Kritik der französischen Karlsepen, volume III of Ausgaben und Abhandlungen aus dem Gebiete der romanischen Philologie. Marburg: N. G. Elwert'sche Verlagsbuchhandlung, pages 49–121.
  • William Calin (1966). The Epic Quest: Studies in Four Old French Chansons de Geste. Baltimore, Maryland: The Johns Hopkins Press.
  • Jean Subrenat (1974). Etude sur "Gaydon", chanson de geste du XIIIe siècle (in French). Aix-en-Provence: Editions de l'Université de Provence; Paris: Ophrys.