History of Charles the Great and Orlando,

Pseudo-Turpin, Thomas Rodd

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AT LOS ANGELES HISTORY OF . TO TURPIN'S HISTORY.PHEFACE 'him, manner, him with The then sentprisoned Ogier. King Constantine and one undereachOcellus, but, seizing he bore them oft' He then sent tweu-arm, likewise. warriors but sharedhim,ty by pairs against they the same fate. Charles dared not then venture to send more warriors : but Orlando with the King's the who seized himGiant,permission approached S6 IURPIN'S HISTORY OF the and seated him hisby right arm,instantly upon steed before him. Bui ?s he was him to the Orlandobearing city, his und in the Al-recovering strength, trusting seized the Giaut the and tumbledmighty, beard,by him from his so that both came to thehorse, toOrlando, then,ground together. thinking slay the drew his and but theGiant, struck atsword, him, blow fell his and himupon steed, through.pierced The Giant drew his enormousthus on foot,being which Orlando who had re-sword, perceiving, mounted his own struck him on the swordcharger, he did not wound struck thearm, and, him,though sword out of his hand which Fer-; greatly enraging he aimed a blow at Orlando with hisracute, list, hit his horse on the andbut, him, forehead,missing laid him dead the And now theupon spot. fight lasted till noon with fists and stones. The Giant then demanded a truce till next today, agreeing meet Orlando without horse or Each war- spear. rior then to hisretired post. Next met once more.

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• Ballads
• Charlemagne

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• Publié par: les_archives_du_savoir
• Nombre de lectures: 7
• Langue: English
• Poids de l'ouvrage: 10 Mo

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AT LOS ANGELESHISTORY
OF
<8teattfceCharles
AND
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ASCRIBED TO ARCHBISHOP TURPIN
;
the Latin inTranslatedfrom
SPAN IIE I M'S LIVES OF ECCLESIASTICAL WRITERS:
TOGETHER WITH THE
MOST CELEBRATED ANCIENT
TO THERELATING
TWELVE PEERS OF FRANCE,
MENTIONED IN DON QUIXOTE
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ENGLISH METRICAL VERSIONS,
THOMAS RODD.By
IN TWO VOLUMES.
VOL. I.
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Cloth London.1'uir,PREFACE.
can the reader no betterAS I account ofgive
than Mr. Ellis has favored usTurpin's History
with in his of Ancient MetricalSpecimens
I shall transcribe what heRomances, merely
the and reserve further con-says upon subject,
for the Preface to thesiderations JBal-Spanish
,
i
lads.
"This Chronicle was beforecomposed 1122,
'with the title of Joannes Historia de vitTurpini
Caroli & and it beRolandi;'magni may presum-
that theMSS. ofsuch a wereed history formerly
it to havenumerous, appearsvery though prin-
derived its from its Frenchcipally popularity
andmetrical some ofimitations,paraphrases
which were of almostprobably equal antiquity
with the and are alluded to the
original, by
translators.
subsequent prose
" The earliestof tothese, according Fauchet,
was written a certain at theJehans, who,by
ofinstance Comte de & deRegnault, Boulogne
Daumartin detained as a(then prisoner by Philip
turned into French a LatinAuguste), prose
which heof found in the archivesTurpin,copy
of St. Denis. A of this work is stillcopy pre-
served in MS. inBibl. c. xi.4,Reg.,
" The next translation was made :by Gaguin
17231*0PREFACE TO TURPIN'S HISTORY.ir
andis dedicated to Francis was atit I, printed
inParis 1527, quarto.
" ofThere is a Latin theparaphrase original
of which to eachin hexameters, many rhyme
s
entitled and inKarolettas,'other, preserved
13 A. xviii.Bibl. Reg.,
work was first in a col-"The printedoriginal
f
entitled Germanicarum rerumlection quatuor
folio.Frankfort, 1566,Chronograph!,'
" French translation wasAnother pretended
at inafterwards 1583, octavo,published Lyons
'
the title of dewith La Chronique Turpin,
et Due de et Premier PairRheims,Archevesque
de France.' This which Mr. Ritsonhowever,
to be the work ascribed Mr. Wartoubysupposes
whoto Michel le lived in the time ofHarnes,
as he tells thecontains,Philippe Auguste, us,
of deRomance Renaud and notMontauban,
itthat of Roland. be a conversionPerhaps may
into of the metrical Romance on the sameprose
as Fauchet informswritten, us,subject, by
de about theHuon Villeneuve, commencement
of the fourteenth
century.
" Be this as it there can be no doubtmay,
that numberless fables
concerning Charlemagne
were on the narrative of the
grafted supposed
his translatorTurpin ; and, indeed, ap-Gaguin
to be almost ashamed of thepears imperfect
contained in hisnarrative and isoriginal, very
solicitous to excuse himself for
suppressing
his hero,many particulars concerning which,