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independent version. But there are also in the Norse text various small
additions and other details which belong to the same class as the differences
between C and V7, and it will be practical to discuss these shorter vari-
ants, which are of no particular importance in themselves, before proceed-
ing to deal with the more fundamental changes.
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Comparatively small differences between Kms and the other versions
When the messengers from Marsilie come to the French camp, Charle-
magne is surrounded by some of his chieftains,
104: Ensembl’od lui Rollant e Oliver.
105: Sansun li dux e Ansei's li fiers,
106: Gefreid d’Anjou, le rei gunfanuner,
107: E si i furent e Gerin e Gerers.
Similar lists are found in V4 (vv. 102-05) and C (vv. 120-23), but both
MSS omit Gerin and Gerers (O v. 107) and have other names instead:
Gui de Gaschogna, Nantelmes e Garner (V4 v. 104).
The Kms has a slightly different list:
104: ok hans vinir meS honum, Rollant ok Oliver,
105: Samson ok Auxiens,
add: ok Hotun inn sterki ok Bæringr,
Nemes inn go5i hertogi ok RikarSr jarl,
Guinelun, Engiler---(then follows v. 108; p. 48622-24, Bb only).
Another list of Charlemagne’s councillors occurs in O vv. 170-78 (Oger,
Turpin, Richard, his nephew Henri, Acelin of Gascogne, Tedbald de
Reins, Milun, Gerers, Gerin, Rollant, Oliver, Guenes). The other ver-
sions differ from O in this placer V4 omits vv. 126-47 and 157—79, in-
cluding the list of councillors, C vv. 206—13 have few names in common
with O vv. 170-76, and Kms mentions only the 12 peers and Ganeion
(p. 4888-10).
Whence did the Kms get the additional names after O v. 105? No doubt
it might have taken Richard from O v. 171. But of the five other names,
only Ganeion is also found among the councillors in vv. 170—78, and there
seems no reason why the translator, to whom most of the peers were mere
names, should omit Gerin and Gerers, mentioned in both the O lists, and