"E cil de France le cleiment a guarant": Roland, Vivien et le thème du guarant.

Abstract

The following paper, which was read at the Sixth International Congress of the Société Rencesvals at Aix-en-Provence in August 1973, will appear also in the Acts of that Conference, which are being edited by the Université de Provence, and are expected to appear at the end of 1974.

I should add that when writing this paper I did not have available to me the article of Professor William W. Kibler, "Roland's Pride," (Symposium, 26 [1972], pp. 147-160). Professor Kibler has since had the kindness to send me a copy of his article which I would certainly have quoted in reference to the "third school" discussed in my own paper. A preliminary note of this kind is not, of course, the place in which to reply to another scholar's study; I must limit myself to stating that, in spite of the balanced and moderate arguments put forward by Prof. Kibler, I do not find myself in agreement with him on his basic conclusions, and that I think many of the points he raises are in fact envisaged and covered in the paper which follows.