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2. Kms — O V4 against the version rimée. This is the usual grouping,
and it simply means that changes have been made because of the rhyming.
Exemples are: vv. 12-13, 24, 29, 52, 59, 638, 1118-19, etc.
3. Kms = O and the version rimée against V4. In these cases V4 has
obviously changed the original text, and examples can be found on every
page of the edition of V4, vide e.g. Stengel’s variants to O vv. 57, 108,
120, 454, etc.
4. Kms = V4 and the version rimée against O. Theoretically this may
mean that O has changed the original verse, and in some cases this is
certainly what has happened (e.g. in v. 414, where O has l’empereur in-
stead of Marsilion). But since O has a far better version of the poem
than the other MSS, this grouping usually means that the original verse
has been changed in a, and this reading has been preferred by the editor
of the later version. This was the natural procedure in a compilation in
the cases where one or more verses had been added in a.
(a) The additions after the following O verses are common to the saga
and V4 (and, unless expressly stated, one or more MSS of the version
rimée. It is easy to find the relevant verses in Mortier’s editions, where
the numhers of the O verses are, as a rule, printed at the end of every
verse): vv. 24 {V4 28, om. CV7), 30 (V4 35), 39 (V4 44), 46 (V4 51),
180 (V4 130), 240 (V4 168), 270 (V4 201), 276 (V4 209), 432 (V4
345), 433 (V4 348), 485 (V4 382), 487 (V4 385-87), 494 (V4 396),
500 (V4 403-05), 505 (V4 408), 508 (V4 415), 515 (V4 422), 516 (V4
424), 521 (V4 431), 567-68 (V4 479), 605 (V4 520-23), 610 (V4 530),
640 (V4 563-64), 642 (V4 568, om. C), 685 (V4 617), 754 (V4 690,
om. CV7), 770 (V4 698, CV7 diff.), 784 (V4 714), 791 laisse (V4 721-
30), 796 (V4 736-37), 813 laisse (V4 754, 757-60), 907 (V4 862), 914
(V4 870-71), 1069 laisse (V4 1006-15), 1087 (V4 1020, C 1459, om.
the other MSS), the additional laisses after v. 1422 (V4 laisses 108, 111-
12, 117), 1551 (V4 1524-26), 1598 (V4 1573), 1602 (V4 1578), 1609
(V4 1587), 1638 (V4 1622), 1679 laisses (cp. V4 laisses 133-36), 1733
(V4 1834), 1742 (V4 1842), 1868 laisse (V4 1977-80), 1912 laisse (V4
2031-37), 2162 (V4 2308, one verse in an additional laisse), 2175 (V4
2327, cp. T 1779), 2185 (V4 2338), 2188 (V4 2340), 2200 (V4 2354,
cp. P 2491), 2210 (V4 2364), 2245 laisse (V4 2394-2400), 2282 (V4
2438), 2468 (V4 2659-60).
(b) Additions in Kms and the version rimée: after O vv. 33 (C 45),
123 (C 143-44, 147), 128 (C 152), 136 (C 161-65), 168 (C 203?), 183
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