{"id":487,"date":"2019-04-29T16:12:53","date_gmt":"2019-04-29T16:12:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/commons.mtholyoke.edu\/historyoftheromancelanguages2019\/?p=487"},"modified":"2019-04-29T16:12:53","modified_gmt":"2019-04-29T16:12:53","slug":"les-extraits-et-leurs-traductions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/commons.mtholyoke.edu\/historyoftheromancelanguages2019\/2019\/04\/29\/les-extraits-et-leurs-traductions\/","title":{"rendered":"Les extraits et leurs traductions"},"content":{"rendered":"

Selected passages<\/strong>:
\nCCLXXXVII
\nQuant Tierris ad vencue sa bataille
\nVenuz i est li emperere Carles,
\nEnsemb l’od lui de ses baruns quarante,
\nNaimes li dux, Oger de Danemarche,
\nGeifrei d’Anjou e Willalme de Blaive.
\nLi reis ad pris Tierri entre sa brace,
\nTert lui le vis od ses granz pels de martre,
\nCeles met jus, puis li afublent altres;
\nMult suavet le chevaler desarment.
\n[Munter l’unt] fait en une mule d’Arabe;
\nRepairet s’en a joie e a barnage;
\nVienent ad Ais, descendent en la place.
\nDes ore cumencet l’ocisiun des altres.<\/p>\n

CCLXXXVIII
\nCarles apelet ses cuntes e ses dux:
\n\u00abQue me loez de cels qu’ai retenuz?
\nPur Guenelun erent a plait venuz,
\nPur Pinabel en ostage renduz.\u00bb
\nRespundent Franc: \u00abJa mar en vivrat uns!\u00bb
\nLi reis cumandet un soen veier, Basbrun:
\n\u00abVa, sis pent tuz a l’arbre de mal fust!
\nPar ceste barbe dunt li peil sunt canuz,
\nSe uns escapet, morz ies e cunfunduz.\u00bb
\nCil li respunt: \u00abQu’en fereie jo e el?\u00bb
\nOd .C. serjanz par force les cunduit.
\n.XXX. en i ad d’icels ki sunt pendut.
\nKi hume tra\u00efst, sei ocit e altroi. AOI.<\/p>\n

CCLXXXIX
\nPuis sunt turnet Bavier e Aleman
\nE Peitevin e Bretun e Norman.
\nSor tuit li altre l’unt otriet li Franc
\nQue Guenes moerget par merveillus ahan.
\nQuatre destrers funt amener avant,
\nPuis si li lient e les piez e les mains.
\nLi cheval sunt orgoillus e curant;
\nQuatre serjanz les acoeillent devant,
\nDevers un’ewe ki est en mi un camp.
\nGuenes est turnet a perdiciun grant;
\nTrestuit si nerf mult li sunt estendant
\nE tuit li membre de sun cors derumpant:
\nSur l’erbe verte en espant li cler sanc.
\nGuenes est mort cume fel recreant.
\nHom ki tra\u00efst altre, nen est dreiz qu’il s’en vant.<\/p>\n

CCXC
\nQuant li empereres ad faite sa venjance,
\nSin apelat ses evesques de France,
\nCels de Baviere e icels d’Alemaigne:
\n\u00abEn ma maisun ad une caitive franche.
\nTant ad o\u00eft e sermuns e essamples,
\nCreire voelt Deu, chrestientet demandet.
\nBaptizez la, pur quei Deus en ait l’anme.\u00bb
\nCil li respundent: \u00abOr seit faite par marrenes:
\nAsez cruiz e linees dames…\u00bb
\nAs bainz ad A\u00eds mult sunt granz les ci…
\nLa baptizent la re\u00efne d’Espaigne:
\nTruvee li unt le num de Juliane.
\nChrestiene est par veire conoisance.<\/p>\n

CCXCI
\nQuant l’emperere ad faite sa justise
\nE esclargiez est la sue grant ire,
\nEn Bramidonie ad chrestientet mise,
\nPasset li jurz, la nuit est aserie.
\nCulcez s’est li reis en sa cambre voltice.
\nSeint Gabriel de part Deu li vint dire:
\n\u00abCarles, sumun les oz de tun emperie!
\nPar force iras en la tere de Bire,
\nReis Vivien si succuras en Imphe,
\nA la citet que paien unt asise:
\nLi chrestien te recleiment e crient.\u00bb
\nLi emperere n’i volsist aler mie:
\n\u00abDeus,\u00bb dist li reis, \u00absi penuse est ma vie!\u00bb
\nPluret des oilz, sa barbe blanche tiret.
\nCi falt la geste que Turoldus declinet.<\/p>\n

Modern version<\/strong><\/p>\n

CHATIMENT DE GANELON
\nG. CCCXVII (Vers 3934-3946)
\nD\u00e8s que Tierri sort du combat vainqueur, l’empereur
\nCharles vient \u00e0 lui, accompagn\u00e9 de quatre de ses barons :
\nle duc Naimes, Ogier de Danemark, Geoffroi d’Anjou
\net Guillaume de Blaye.^ Le roi prend Tierri dans ses
\nbras, lui essuie le visage avec ses grandes fourrures de
\nmartre qu’il enl\u00e8ve ensuite et en rev\u00eat d’autres. Tout
\ndoucement on d\u00e9sarme le chevalier ; puis on le fait mon-
\nter sur une mule arabe. C’est ainsi que le baron tout
\njoyeux s’en revient. On rentre \u00e0 Aix et l’on descend
\nsur la place. C’est alors que le supplice de Ganelon
\net de ses parents commence.<\/p>\n

G. CCCXVIII (Vers 3947-3959)
\nCharles fait venir ses comtes et ses ducs : \u00ab Que me con-
\nseillez-vous au sujet des otages que j’ai gard\u00e9s ? Ils sont
\nvenus au proc\u00e8s pour Ganelon et ils se sont livr\u00e9s en
\notages pour Pinabel.\u00bb \u00abQu’il meurent tous,\u00bb r\u00e9pondent
\nles Fran\u00e7ais. Alors le roi appelle Basbrun, l’ex\u00e9cuteur
\nde sa haute justice: \u00abVa,\u00bb lui dit-il, \u00abpends-les tous \u00e0
\ncet arbre maudit ; et par cette barbe aux poils blancs,
\ns’il en \u00e9chappe un seul, tu es iport, tu es perdu.\u00bb \u00abSoyez
\ntranquille,\u00bb r\u00e9pond Basbrun ; \u00ab pourquoi ferais-je autre que
\nmon devoir ?\u00bb Puis, avec cent sergents, il les entra\u00eene.
\nTrente ils \u00e9taient qui furent tous pendus. Ainsi homme
\nqui trahit am\u00e8ne sa propre perte et celle d’autrui.<\/p>\n

Aoi.<\/p>\n

G. CCCXIX (Vers 3960-3924)
\nL\u00e0-dessus Bavarois, Allemands, Bretons, Poitevins et
\nNormands de retour, tous sont d’accord, et surtout les
\nFran\u00e7ais, que Ganelon meure d’un supplice extraordi-
\nnaire.^ On fait donc amener devant lui quatre coursiers
\nauxquels on lie Ganelon pieds et mains. Les chevaux
\nsont fringants et emport\u00e9s. Quatre valets les dirigent
\nvers une jument au milieu d’un champ. Ganelon subit
\nun supplice atroce. Tous ses nerfs sont affreusement
\ntendus et tous ses membres s’arrachent de son corps.
\nSon sang vermeil s’\u00e9pand sur l’herbe verte. Ganelon
\nmeurt en tra\u00eetre av\u00e9r\u00e9. Homme qui trahit les autres ne
\ndoit jamais pouvoir s’en vanter.<\/p>\n

G. CCCXX (Vers 3975-3987)
\nQuand l’empereur a ainsi fait vengeance, il s’adresse
\naux \u00e9v\u00eaques de France, de Bavi\u00e8re et d’Allemagne: \u00abIl
\ny a \u00e0 ma cour une noble captive, qui a entendu tant de
\nbeaux sermons et vu tant de bons exemples, qu’elle veut
\ncroire en Dieu et demande \u00e0 \u00eatre chr\u00e9tienne. Baptisez-la
\nafin que Dieu ait son \u00e2me.\u00bb Les \u00e9v\u00eaques lui r\u00e9pondent:
\n\u00abQu’elle ait des marraines* choisies parmi les dames
\nnobles et de haut lignage.\u00bb Les bains d’Aix attirent
\nbeaucoup de monde ; c’est l\u00e0 qu’on baptise la reine
\nd’Espagne en lui donnant le nom de Julienne. C’est par
\nconviction qu’elle est devenue chr\u00e9tienne.<\/p>\n

G. CCCXXI (Vers 3988-40022)
\nQuand l’empereur eut fait justice et que sa grande
\ncol\u00e8re fut apais\u00e9e, il fit entrer dans le c\u0153ur de Brami-
\nmonde la foi chr\u00e9tienne. Le jour fini, voici venir la
\nnuit sombre. Le roi se couche dans sa chambre vo\u00fbt\u00e9e.
\nMais saint Gabriel vient lui dire de la part de Dieu:
\n\u00abCharles, rassemble les arm\u00e9es* de ton empire, va \u00e0
\nmarches forc\u00e9es dans la terre de Bire porter secours au
\nroi Vivien \u00e0 Imphe,* dans la ville que les pa\u00efens assi\u00e8gent,
\net oh t’appellent les chr\u00e9tiens \u00e0 grands cris.\u00bb Mais l’em-
\npereur aimerait mieux ne pas y aller. \u00ab Dieu,\u00bb s’\u00e9crie-t-
\nil, \u00ab que ma vie est p\u00e9nible ! \u00bb Et les larmes aux yeux, il
\ntire sa barbe blanche. Ici s’arr\u00eate la geste que Th\u00e9-
\nroulde expose.*<\/p>\n

English Translation<\/strong><\/p>\n

As soon as Tierri emerges from the victorious combat, the Emperor
\nCharles comes to him, accompanied by four of his barons:
\nthe Duke Naimes, Ogier of Denmark, Geoffroi d’Anjou
\nand Guillaume de Blaye. The king takes Tierri in his
\narms, he wipe his face with his big marten furs,
\nwhich he then removes and puts on others.
\nVery slowly, the knight is disarmed;
\nthen he is placed on an Arab mule. This is how the
\nhappy baron comes back. We return to Aix and we go down
\nto the square. It is then that the torture of Ganelon
\nand his parents begins.<\/p>\n

Charles summons his counts and dukes: “What do you think
\nof the hostages I have kept? They
\ncame to a trial for Ganelon, and they gave themselves
\nas hostages to Pinabel. “” Let him all die, “replied the French.
\nThen the king calls Basbrun, the executor of his high justice:
\n“Go,” he said to him, “hang them all to this cursed tree; and
\nby that white-haired beard, if one escapes, you are lost, you are lost.””
\nBe quiet, “replied Basbrun; “Why should I do other than my duty?”
\nThen, with a hundred sergeants, he leads them away.
\nThirty of them were all hanged.
\nThus a betraying man brings his own loss and that of others.<\/p>\n

Aoi.<\/p>\n

On this subject, Bavarians, Germans, Bretons, Poitevins,
\nand Normans, all agree, and especially the French,
\nthat Ganelon died of extraordinary torment. Thus four couriers
\nwere brought before him to whom Ganelon was bound.
\nfeet and hands. The horses are frisky and carried away.
\nFour valets lead them to a mare in the middle of a field.
\nGanelon suffers an agonizing torture. All his nerves were terribly
\ntense and all his limbs are torn from his body. His blood
\nis spreading on the green grass. Ganelon dies as a proven traitor.
\nA man who betrays others must never be able to boast about it.<\/p>\n

When the emperor has done revenge, he addresses the bishops
\nof France, Bavaria, and Germany: “There is at my court a noble captive,
\nwho has heard so many beautiful sermons and seen so many good examples,
\nthat she wants to believe in God and asks to be Christian.
\nBaptize her so that God has his soul. “The bishops answer him:”
\nMay she have godmothers * chosen from the noble and high-ranking ladies.
\n“The baths of Aix attract a lot of people; it is there that one baptizes the queen
\nof Spain by giving her the name of Julienne.
\nIt is by conviction that she became a Christian.<\/p>\n

When the Emperor had done justice and his great anger was appeased,
\nhe brought into the heart of Brami- monde the Christian faith.
\nThe day is over, here comes the dark night.
\nThe king lies down in his vaulted room. But St. Gabriel
\ncomes to tell him from God: “Charles, gather the armies of your
\nempire, go on forced marches in the land of Bire to help King
\nVivien at Imphe, * in the city which the pagans besiege, and Oh,
\nyou call the Christians loudly. “But the Emperor would rather not go.
\n“God,” he exclaims, “my life is painful! And with tears in his eyes,
\nhe draws his white beard. Here stops the gesture that Theroulde exposes.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Selected passages: CCLXXXVII Quant Tierris ad vencue sa bataille Venuz i est li emperere Carles, Ensemb l’od lui de ses baruns quarante, Naimes li dux, Oger de Danemarche, Geifrei d’Anjou e Willalme de Blaive. Li reis ad pris Tierri entre sa brace, Tert lui le vis od ses granz pels de martre, Celes met jus, … Continue reading Les extraits et leurs traductions<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1032,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[26,29],"class_list":["post-487","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-unwanaabasi","tag-la-chanson-de-roland","tag-traductions"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/commons.mtholyoke.edu\/historyoftheromancelanguages2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/487","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/commons.mtholyoke.edu\/historyoftheromancelanguages2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/commons.mtholyoke.edu\/historyoftheromancelanguages2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/commons.mtholyoke.edu\/historyoftheromancelanguages2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1032"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/commons.mtholyoke.edu\/historyoftheromancelanguages2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=487"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/commons.mtholyoke.edu\/historyoftheromancelanguages2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/487\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":690,"href":"https:\/\/commons.mtholyoke.edu\/historyoftheromancelanguages2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/487\/revisions\/690"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/commons.mtholyoke.edu\/historyoftheromancelanguages2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=487"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/commons.mtholyoke.edu\/historyoftheromancelanguages2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=487"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/commons.mtholyoke.edu\/historyoftheromancelanguages2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=487"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}