p. 25, l. 836. «Ogier Danoys» (cf. l. 1687) is one of the twelve peers in this poem. His life is contained in the French poem of the “«Chevallerie Ogier»” by Raimbert de Paris. According to that romance Ogier had been delivered in his youth to Charlemagne as [p110] a pledge to secure the discharge of the tribute which his father Geffroi, king of Denmark, was bound to pay to the emperor. The French ambassadors having once been insulted by Geffroy, Charlemagne swears to make Ogier pay with his life the offence done by his father, and Ogier is going to be executed when the emperor, following the urgent requests of messengers arrived from Rome, suddenly starts to deliver this city from the Saracens. On this expedition the French army is hard pressed by the enemy, but Ogier by his eminent prowess and valour enables Charles to enter Rome. He now is pardoned and becomes the favourite of the emperor. Several years afterwards Ogier’s son Baudouinet is slain by Charlot, the son of Charlemagne, as they were quarrelling about a party of chess. Ogier, in order to revenge his son, goes as far as to attack Charlemagne himself, but on the point of being taken a prisoner, he escapes and flees to Didier, king of Lombardy. Charles makes war on Didier, and after a long struggle Ogier is taken and imprisoned at Reims, where he is going to be starved, when a sudden invasion of the Saracens obliges Charlemagne again to have recourse to the courage and valour of the Dane. Ogier delivers France by slaying the giant Bréhus. To reward him for the service done to his country, Charles gives him the county of Hainaut, where afterwards, as the poem tells us, he died in the renown of holiness. p. 25, l. 845. «it» = “hit.” Cf. note to l. 41. p. 25, l. 847–50. These four lines seem to be incorrect. As they stand, the three first lines are rhymed together, and there is no rhyme to the fourth. The diction of the whole passage, which cannot be said to be ungrammatical, is nevertheless wanting in precision and exactness. p. 25, l. 866. «rafe» = rave. p. 25, l. 868. «Moun-joye» is the name of Charlemagne’s sword in this poem (cf. ll. 3111, 850), whereas, according to all other romances, the emperor’s sword was called «Joyeuse». «Mounjoie» or «Montjoie» was the name of the French standard; it was likewise used as the battle-cry of the French, cf. «Fierabras», l. 1703, and «Syr Ferumbras», ll. 2285, 2652, 4577, 4727. The sword «Joyeuse» had been forged by the celebrated Weland or Galand, as we read in the French «Fierabras», l. 635: “Et «Galans» fist Floberge à l’acier atrempé, Hauteclere et «Joiouse», où moult ot dignité; Cele tint Karlemaines longuement en certé.” Compare Gaston Paris, «Histoire Poétique», p. 374.