ees francaises_ (Paris, 4 vols. new ed., 1878, 1892,
1880, 1882) and the supplementary _Bibliographie des chansons de
geste_ (1897). The third volume of the _Epopees francaises_ contains
an analysis and full particulars of the _chansons de geste_
immediately connected with the history of Charlemagne. See also G.
Rauschen, _Die Legende Karls des Grossen im 11ten und 12ten
Jahrhundert_ (Leipzig, 1890); Kristoffer Nyrop, _Den oldfranske
Heldedigtning_ (Copenhagen, 1883; Ital. trans. Turin, 1886); Pio
Rajna, _Le Origini dell' epopea francese_ (Florence, 1884); G.T.
Graesse, "Die grossen Sagenkreise des Mittelalters," in his
_Litterargeschichte_ (Dresden, 1842); _Histoire litteraire de la
France_ (vol. xxii., 1852); H.L. Ward, _Catalogue of Romances in the
Dept. of MSS. in the British Museum_ (1883), vol. i. pp. 546-689; E.
Muntz, _La Legende de Charlemagne dans l'art du moyen age_ (Paris,
1885); and for the German legend, vol. iii. of H.F. Massmann's edition
of the _Kaiserchronik_ (Quedlinburg, 1849-1854). _The English
Charlemagne Romances_ were edited (extra series) for the Early Eng.
Text Soc. by Sidney J. Herrtage, Emil Hausknecht, Octavia Richardson
and Sidney Lee (1879-1881), the romance of _Duke Huon of Bordeaux_
containing a general account of the cycle by Sidney Lee; the
_Karlamagnussaga_, by C.R. Unger (Christiania, 1860), see also G.
Paris in _Bibl. de l'Ecole des Charles_ (1864-1865). For individual
_chansons_ see _Anseis de Carthage_, ed. J. Alton (Tubingen, 1892);
_Aiquin_, ed. F. Jouon des Longrais (Nantes, 1880); _Aspremont_, ed.
F. Guessard and L. Gautier (Paris, 1885); _Basin_, or _Charles et
Elegast_ or _Le Couronnement de Charles_, preserved only in foreign
versions (see Paris, _Hist. Poet._ pp. 315, seq.); _Berta de li gran
pie_, ed. A. Mussafia, in _Romania_ (vols. iii. and iv., 1874-1875);
_Berte aus grans pies_, ed. A. Scheler (Brussels, 1874);
_Charlemagne_, by Girard d'Amiens, detailed analysis in Paris, _Hist.
Poet._ (Appendix iv.); _Couronnement Looys_, ed. E. Langlois (Le Puy,
1888); _Desier_ (Desiderius or Didier), lost songs of the wars of
Lombardy, some fragments of which are preserved in _Ogier le Danois;
Destruction de Rome_, ed. G. Grober in _Romania_(1873); A. Thomas,
_Nouvelles recherches sur "l'entree de Spagne_," in _Bibl. des ecoles
francaises de Rome_ (Paris, 1882); _Fierabras_, ed. A. Krober and G.
Servois (Paris,