CONTENTS.
Reading edition
INTRODUCTION … v Popularity of the Carlovingian Romances … v Popularity of the Ferumbras Poem … vi The Provençal Ferabras … ix The Fierabras Poem an Enlarged and Recast Portion of the Old Balan Romance … xi The Poem of the Destruction de Rome … xiii MSS. of the French Fierabras … xv The English Sir Ferumbras, its Source, etc. … xvi The Poem of the Sowdan of Babylon, its Sources, its Differences from the Original Balan Romance and from the Ashmolean Ferumbras … xxii Dialect of the Sowdan … xxxiv Metre and Rhymes of the Sowdan … xl Date and Author of the Sowdan … xlv MS. of the Sowdan … xlvii Roxburghe Club Edition of the Sowdan … xlviii
ADDITIONS … xlix The Hanover MS. of the French Fierabras Compared With the Sowdan … xlix The Hanover Version Compared With Sir Ferumbras … lii
SKETCH OF THE STORY … liv
THE ROMAUNCE OF THE SOWDONE OF BABYLONE AND OF FERUMBRAS HIS SONE WHO CONQUEREDE ROME … 1
NOTES … 95
GLOSSARIAL INDEX … 133
INDEX OF NAMES … 141