William W. Kibler. "Bertrand de Bar-sur-Aube, Author of Aymeri de Narbonne?"

Abstract

This paper rejects attribution of Aymeri de Narbonne to the author of Girart de Vienne, Bertrand de Bar-sur-Aube. Lines in Girart clearly identify Bertrand as the author, but the only suggestion that Bertrand also composed Aymeri comes from what Kibler terms Gaston Paris' subjective evaluation of similarities of tone, style and versification between the two epics.