This article intends to re-examine the mutual influences between the Renaut de Montauban and the Ogier de Danemarche. The two chansons de geste show several similarities in the narrative, which date back to the period of their development and are already evident in the first available sources, Metellus of Tegernsee and Alexander Neckam; these, however, also display some significant discrepancies with the stories we can read today. After highlighting the resemblances, the article discusses which poem had chronological antecedence; the conclusion of this study is that the first part of the Chevalerie Ogier in the Ogier de Danemarche, the only text in which Ogier the Dane is described as a rebel, has likely been written by individual initiative after the Enfances Ogier and under the influence of Renaut de Montauban’s plot. In this context the message of the Chevalerie Ogier shows its peculiarity in comparison to the text which inspired it: contrary to the Renaut, the Chevalerie rejects the idea of the unavoidable failure of any act of rebellion against the royal power and it proposes a radical view of it instead.
L’articolo riesamina le interferenze tra il Renaut de Montauban e l’Ogier de Danemarche. Le due canzoni di gesta presentano punti di contatto a livello narrativo che risalgono alla fase della loro elaborazione e sono già evidenti nelle prime testimonianze di Metello di Tegernsee e Alexander Neckam, pur con significative discordanze rispetto ai racconti pervenuti. È discussa quindi la questione dell’anteriorità di uno dei due testi e si conclude che la prima parte della Chevalerie Ogier nell’Ogier de Danemarche, l’unico testo in cui Ogier figuri come ribelle, è probabilmente stata composta, per iniziativa individuale, dopo le Enfances Ogier su influsso del Renaut de Montauban. In tal modo, il messaggio trasmesso dalla Chevalerie Ogier mostra la propria specificità nel confronto con il Renaut, rispetto al quale respinge l’idea del fallimento inevitabile di ogni ribellione al potere regio e ne propone al contrario una visione oltranzista.
Ogier e Renaut: riesame delle interferenze
Barachini G
2017-01-01
Abstract
This article intends to re-examine the mutual influences between the Renaut de Montauban and the Ogier de Danemarche. The two chansons de geste show several similarities in the narrative, which date back to the period of their development and are already evident in the first available sources, Metellus of Tegernsee and Alexander Neckam; these, however, also display some significant discrepancies with the stories we can read today. After highlighting the resemblances, the article discusses which poem had chronological antecedence; the conclusion of this study is that the first part of the Chevalerie Ogier in the Ogier de Danemarche, the only text in which Ogier the Dane is described as a rebel, has likely been written by individual initiative after the Enfances Ogier and under the influence of Renaut de Montauban’s plot. In this context the message of the Chevalerie Ogier shows its peculiarity in comparison to the text which inspired it: contrary to the Renaut, the Chevalerie rejects the idea of the unavoidable failure of any act of rebellion against the royal power and it proposes a radical view of it instead.I documenti in IRIS sono protetti da copyright e tutti i diritti sono riservati, salvo diversa indicazione.


