Abstract:The
chanson de geste
, old French epic narrative poems, was the most significant medium of transmission of the
matière de France
between the eleventh and sixteenth centuries. Only a few texts became fully appropriated into Middle English popular culture through translation into Middle English romance: the narratives of
Fierabras
,
Otinel,
and the
Chanson de Roland
traditions, with the same na… Show more
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