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Copyright 2005 by Scott Pavelle a/k/a Brion Enkazi

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Inspired from an old French Chanson de Geste ("Song of Deeds") as translated by William Caxton in 1485, this novella tells the story of Charlemagne's struggle with the wicked Admiral Balan of Spain.  If you would like to buy a hard copy, please write.  In the meantime, here are links to my most current version:

INTRODUCTION

TABLE OF CHARACTERS
CHAPTER 1 - Oliver & Fierabras

Notes for Chapter 1

CHAPTER 2 - Captures & Rescues

Notes for Chapter 2

CHAPTER 3 - The Tower

Notes for Chapter 3

CHAPTER 4 - The Ride of Richard of Normandy

Notes for Chapter 4

CHAPTER 5 - The Battle of Mantryble Bridge

Notes for Chapter 5

CHAPTER 6 - The Final Assault

Notes for Chapter 6

CHAPTER 7 - The Battle of Aygremore

Notes for Chapter 7

AFTERWORD

PREQUEL - The Destruction of Rome - I worked from Caxton, who was himself translating an incomplete work.  Here is a prose version I’ve adapted from the romance “The Sultan of Babylon”  My kind thanks to Professor Alan Lupack and the good folk at TEAMS (the Consortium for the Teaching of the Middle Ages) for allowing me to provide it here.  NOTE:  There are extra copyright limitations on this page.

SOURCE – Caxton’s The Lyf Of the Noble and Crysten Prince Charles the Grete - (As published by the Early English Text Society Extra Series in 1880-1881).

Those with an obsessive love for the "authentic" may be interested to know that Caxton was translating a 13th century text called the Speculum Historiale. The editor's notes to the EETS text indicate that he did a fairly close translation.  There is only one remaining copy of Caxton's work, a folio volume with 96 leaves, is kept in the King's Library of the British Museum, Press-mark C. 10 b. 9. There are two copies of the Speculum Historiale in other museums.


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