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2103: Mais saveir volt se Charles i vendrat:
2111: Seisante mille en i cornent si halt
(Sunent li munt e respondent li val:
Paien l’entendent, nel tindrent mie en gab;)
Dit l’un a l’altre: “Karlun avrum nus ja l”
2115: Dient paien: “L’emperere repairet, etc.
The changes and omissions here are so numerous and far-reaching as
to change the whole meaning of the passage. There is no mention of Tur-
pin’s wounds, or the pagans killed by him, although the verses should not
have caused any difficulty: v. 2084 is practically identical with the verse
that describes the wounds of Margariz in V4 v. 1390:
Per me li cors fieru de quatro espler,
correctly translated in the saga:
ok 4 sverSum var hann i gegnum lagSr (p. 5 1 220'21).
The change in the meaning of v. 2087 cannot be due to a misunderstand-
ing; every one of the words has been translated earlier on (cp. v. 235:
est de guere vencud = er--------yfirkominn at riki sinu, Kms p. 48914-15).
The allusion to the Geste and St. Giles in vv. 2095-98 may have been
difficult, but again the translator does try to make sense out of the allu-
sion to St. Denis in V4 v. 1355, even if he misunderstands it (Kms p.
51211: i s'ogunni af hinum helga Dionisio). The verses in which it is told
that Roland blew l’olifant for the last time are also quite easy and should
not present any difficulties; there is not a single word in them that has
not been used earlier in the poem and correctly translated. In the whole
of this episode, both V4 and the version rimée follow O closely, and acci-
dental omission can be ruled out. The loss of vv. 2104-10 means that the
biowing of the trumpets comes as a surprise, without preparation, a thing
which is contrary to the elaborate development of the situations in O. But
the sequence of events in the saga is quite logical:
O
Kms
2066-68: Characterization of the three remaining
French knights.
2069-75: They fight, are attacked by the pagans.
2076: Gualter is killed.
p. 521H-12
p. 52112-13: They attack
and kill 1000 pagans (mis-
understanding in the Kms)
p. 52113