Note 458 — Chapter IV · THE SOURCES FOR THE PERIOD 1100–1250 A. D.

405Three manuscripts of the poem contain the assertion that its author was one Gossouin of Metz; only one manuscript of the poem complete with all the additions, alterations, etc., of the second verse redaction mentions Walter of Metz as the author. C. V. Langlois (op. cit., pp. 63–65) believed that both verse redactions must have been the work of Gossouin; Prior (op. cit., pp. 12–15) that the first verse redaction and the prose form were the work of Gossouin and that the second verse redaction may well have been the work of Walter. Uncertainty still prevails regarding the whole matter.