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Pererindod Siarlymaen
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Medieval Welsh version of the Old French Pèlerinage de Charlemagne, a chanson de geste about Charlemagne’s fictitious expedition to Jerusalem and Constantinople, ostensibly to go on a pilgrimage but in reality, to assert his supremacy over Emperor Hugo. The Welsh text survives as part of a compilation of texts about Charlemagne known as Ystorya de Carolo Magno or the Welsh Charlemagne cycle.
Manuscript witnesses
MS
Oxford, Jesus College, MS 111
Welsh version of the Pélerinage de Charlemagne, written in Hand I.
f. 149ra.1 = col. 605.1
Sources
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[dipl. ed.] Thomas, Peter Wynn [ed.], D. Mark Smith, and Diana Luft [transcribers and encoders], Welsh prose (Rhyddiaith Gymraeg) 1300–1425, Online: Cardiff University, 2007–present. URL: <http://www.rhyddiaithganoloesol.caerdydd.ac.uk>.
Peniarth MSS 5, 7, 8/1, 8/2, 9 and 10, and the Red Book of Hergest. direct link
[ed.] Williams, Stephen J., Ystorya de Carolo Magno o Llyfr Coch Hergest, rev. ed., Cardiff: University of Wales Press, 1968.
[ed.] [tr.] Rhys, John [tr.], “Ystoria Charles: History of Charlemagne”, in: Eduard Koschwitz, and Eugen Kölbing (eds), Sechs Bearbeitungen des altfranzösischen von Karls des Grossen Reise nach Jerusalem und Constantinopel, Heilbronn: Henniger, 1879. 1–18 (text), 19–39 (translation).
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