Roman de Rou
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Roman de Rou ("
.Following the success of his Benoît de Sainte-More).
The work was started in the year 1160, and Wace seems to have performed his last revisions in the mid-1170s.
Composition
The work consists of:
- a 315-line account of the Dukes in reverse chronological order known as the Chronique Ascendante. This is believed by some scholars not to be an original part of the Rou, but a separate work by Wace.
- a 4,425-line section in alexandrines known as Part II
- an 11,440-line section in octosyllables known as Part III
A 750-line section known as Le Romaunz de Rou et des dus de Normendie appended in some editions appears to be an early draft, abandoned and later reworked into the final redaction.
Sources
Wace used as sources for his history of the Dukes of Normandy:
- Gesta Normannorum Ducum
- De moribus et actis primorum Normanniae ducum by Dudo of Saint-Quentin
- Gesta Guillelmi by William of Poitiers
- Gesta regum Anglorum by William of Malmesbury
- Brevis relatio de Guillelmo nobilissimo comtie Normannorum
- oral tradition, including information from his father, and his own eyewitness
See also
References
- ISBN 0-901897-34-5.)
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External links
- Andressen, Hugo, ed. (1879). Maistre Wace's Roman de Rou et des ducs de Normandie (in Old English and German). Heilbronn: Verlag Gebr. Henninger – via Internet Archcive.
- Master Wace his Chronicle of the Norman Conquest from Roman de Rou. Translated by Taylor, Edgar. London: William Pickering. 1837 – via 1066.co.nz.