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Thread #8862   Message #56154
Posted By: Jon Bartlett
28-Jan-99 - 04:32 PM
Thread Name: Lyr Req: Le Roi Renaud
Subject: RE: le roi renaud
There's an OK set in Bernard Fuller, "La France qui chante" (London, 1959): Heinemann, p. 47. Marius Barbeau prints a longish set - 17 verses - (of the second part, his death being concealed from his wife by his mother) and gives a good background on the song's provenance (in Scandinavia) and spread, particularly its Quebecois versions, in "Folk-Songs of Old Quebec" (Ottawa, 1962: National Museum Bulletin No. 75). he gives a grand total of "90 French versions; 67 from the other Latin countries; 69 Scandinavian records. In all, 226. And there may be still more". (p. 20). It's interesting that it never got to Scotland or England.