CHANSON DE ROLAND, the culmina tion of a cycle of 'Chansons de Geste' or
The French poem contains 6,000 lines. A frag ment of 1,049 lines, translated in Middle Eng lish from what is known as the Lansdowne manuscript, is published by the Early English Text
The first modern edition is by Michel (Paris 1837). Consult editions by Mul ler (Gottingen 1878); Gautier, Leon (Tours 1872 et seq.) • Stengel (Heilbronn (1888) ; Seelmann,
des altfranzosischen
(Heilbronn 1888) ; Paris, Gas ton, 'La poesie du moyen age' (1885-1906) ; Grober, Gustav, (Grundriss der n5manischen Philologie) (Strassburg 1904) • Gautier, Leon,