The Grateful Dead: The History of a Folk StoryGerould, Gordon Hall
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The Grateful Dead: The History of a Folk Story
Gerould, Gordon Hall
Dead -- Folklore; Folk literature -- Themes, motives; Grateful dead (Tale)
An Old French romance known to exist in two manuscripts, the earlier
dating from the fourteenth century, [28] the later from about the end
of the fifteenth. [29] It has never been edited, but the portion which
concerns us was analyzed in detail by Wilhelmi, pp. 18-38. This summary
I have made the basis of my discussion. The romance was mentioned by
P. Paris, Foerster, and Suchier (as cited in note below), Gautier,
Les epopees francaises, 1st ed. 1865, i. 471-473, Ebert, Jahrbuch
f. rom. und engl. Lit. iv. 53, 54, and Benfey, Pantschatantra,
i. 220. A prose translation into German is found in manuscripts of
the fifteenth century, which does not differ materially from the
original. [30] This was printed in 1514, and summarized by F. H. von
der Hagen, Gesammtabenteuer, 1850, i. xcvii-xcix, Simrock, pp. 104-106,
and Hippe, p. 154. See E. Mueller, Ueberlieferung des Herpin von Burges,
1905, who analyzes the work and treats its relations to Lion.
Oliver.
Olivier de Castille et Artus d'Algarbe, a French prose romance
composed before 1472, according to Foulche-Delbosc (Revue hispanique,
ix. 592). The first and second editions were printed at Geneva,
the first in 1482, the second before 1492. [31] There exist at
least three manuscripts of the work from the fifteenth century:
MS. Bibl. nat. fran. 12574 (which attributes the romance to a David
Aubert, according to Groeber, Grundriss der rom. Phil. ii. 1, 1145);
MS. Brussels 3861; and Univ. of Ghent, MS. 470. The designs of the
last have been reproduced, together with a summary of the text, by
Heins and Bergmans, Olivier de Castille, 1896. An English translation
was printed by Wynkyn de Worde in 1518. A translation from the second
French edition into Castilian was made by Philippe Camus, which was
printed thirteen times between 1499 and 1845. [32] The edition of
1499 has lately been reproduced in facsimile by A. M. Huntington,
La historia de los nobles caualleros Oliueros de castilla y artus
dalgarbe, 1902. A German translation from the French was made
by Wilhelm Ziely in 1521, and this was translated into English by
Leighton and Barrett, The History of Oliver and Arthur, 1903. From the
German prose Hans Sachs took the material for his comedy on the theme
(publ. 1556). A summary of Ziely's work is given by Froelicher, Thuering
von Ringoltingen's "Melusine," Wilhelm Ziely's "Olivier und Artus"
und "Valentin und Orsus," 1889, pp. 65 f., which is used by Wilhelmi,
pp. 55, 56, in his comparison of the romance with Richars and Lion
de Bourges. An Italian translation, presumably from the French,
was printed three or four times from 1552 to 1622. [33] A summary
of the story is given in Melanges tires d'une grande bibliotheque,
by E. V. 1780, pp. 78 ff., with an incorrect note about the romance,
reproduced by Hippe, pp. 155 f., with an analysis from the same source
of the part of the tale belonging to our cycle. Robert Laneham in
his list of ballads and romances, made in 1575, mentions Olyuer of
the Castl.
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