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''Gormond et Isembart'' (English: "Gormond and Isembart")〔There are numerous spelling variations: ''Gormont et Isembart'', ''Gormund et Isembard'', etc.〕 is an Old French ''chanson de geste'' from the second half of the eleventh or first half of the twelfth century.〔Hasenohr, 554-555.〕〔Holmes, 90-92.〕 Along with ''The Song of Roland'' and the ''Chanson de Guillaume'', it is one of the three ''chansons de geste'' whose composition incontestably dates from before 1150;〔Hasenohr, 239.〕 it may be slightly younger than ''The Song of Roland'' and, according to one expert, may date from as early as 1068.〔 The poem tells the story of a rebellious young French lord, Isembart, who allies himself with a Saracen king, Gormond, renounces his Christianity, and battles the French king. The poem is sometimes grouped with the ''Geste de Doon de Mayence'' or "rebellious vassal cycle" of ''chansons de geste''.〔 ==The text== The extant work only survives in a fragment (two parchment sheets that had been used as a binding of a book〔) of 661 octosyllable〔〔 (unusual for a ''chanson de geste'') verses in assonanced laisses (conserved in the Royal Library of Belgium in Brussels〔) written in a central France dialect,〔 dating from c. 1130, and that form the end of a much longer poem.〔 The content of the entire poem can be inferred from two sources: * a rhymed chronicle from the 13th century by Philippe Mousket;〔 * a 15th-century German adaptation/translation, ''Loher und Maller'' (1437), of a prose version of a late 14th/early 15th century French romance, ''Lohier et Mallart''.〔 Dating of the composition of the ''chanson'' is based on: * a mention in the chronicles (finished 1088, revised 1104) of Hariulf, a monk of Saint-Riqiuer;〔 * allusions to the ''chanson'' in ''Historia Regum Britanniae'' by Geoffrey of Monmouth.〔 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Gormond et Isembart」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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