Charbonnier est ma?tre chez soi: ""The collier is master in his own
house."" This French saying finds its most literal expression in
The Tale of Charlemagne and Ralph the Collier, a 15th-century
Middle Scots romance about the adventures that ensue when King
Charlemagne, separated from his entourage by a blizzard, seeks
refuge in the home of a proud and irascible collier. Combining
folktale motifs with burlesque humor and elements of chansons and
chivalric romances, The Tale of Charlemagne and Ralph the Collier
is a lively but little-read story of medieval courtesy,
hospitality, and knighthood. This translation, the first into
modern English, emulates the 75 thirteen-line rhyming, alliterative
stanzas of the original. Light annotations, a brief introduction,
and a bibliography help introduce modern readers to this strange
and entertaining romance that W.R.J. Barron dubbed ""technically
and creatively the best of the English texts on the Matter of
France.""
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