CONTENTS.

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  • 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
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                           

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