The History of the Norman People: Wace's Roman de Rou

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Wace's Roman de Rou is both a valuable historical document and an important work of French literature. Composed during the 1160s and 1170s, it relates the origins of Normandy from the time of Hasting and Rollo (Rou) and continues as far as the battle of Tinchebray in 1106.

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Burgess, Glyn S. (Translator)

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Fiction and Literature, Poetry, Literature Studies and Criticism
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841.1Literature & rhetoricFrench LiteratureFrench poetryEarly French 842–1400
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PQ1545 .W2 .A713Language and LiteratureFrench, Italian, Spanish and Portuguese literaturesFrench literatureOld French literatureTo 1350/1400
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