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Constantinople becomes enamoured of the beauty of Gaudisce, but 

 she rejects his suit, and will approach no man, nor listen to words 

 of affection until she finds her father. The king, dismayed at the 

 melancholy of his son, orders Gaudisce to be offered in a brothel. 

 At this moment her parents fortunately arrive. They had first pro- 

 ceeded to Orimonde, where Josselme, dismayed at the arrival of 

 Jourdain, confesses that he had conveyed Gaudisce to Constantino- 

 ple, whither Jourdain immediately holds his course. He learns upon 

 his arrival that a woman is to be offered for sale, and his daughter 

 comes at once into his mind. He finds no rest until he offers pro- 

 tection to the unknown unfortunate and recognizes in her his daugh- 

 ter. She marries Alis, the son of the king of Constantinople. They 

 all return to France to be reconciled to Charlemagne. The usurper 

 and murderer, Fromont, is conquered in field fighting by Jourdain, 

 and condemned to be flayed alive and to be dragged to death by a 

 horse. The faithful Renier is rewarded with the city of Blaivies, 

 just as Hellenicus is remembered in the ApoUofiius. 



It will be seen that in Jourdain the finding of the wife does not 

 conclude the story. Oriabel hears Jourdain lamenting before her 

 cell in Palermo. She thinks she recognizes the voice, and calls 

 him to her window. Mutual recognition follows, and the Bishop 

 dismisses her from her cloistral life. 



The story of Jourdain de Blaivies is often found associated with 

 the tale of Atnis et Amiles and both were ultimately inserted in 

 the Charlemagne cycle, Joardain's father becoming the son of 

 Amis. See also Deux Redactions dii Roman des Sept Sages de 

 Rome, published by Gaston Paris, Paris, 1876, pp. 1 61-196, for a 

 discussion of a variation of the Romance of the Seven Sages in 

 which the two friends are named Loys and Alexander. This latter 

 story seems to be the foundation of Theodoor Rodenburgh's Alex- 

 ajtder, a tragi-comedy in forty-four scenes, published at Amsterdam 

 in 161 8. Henslowe paid Martin Slaughter in May, 1598, J],2> for 

 five books, one of which was a play of Alexander afid Lodwick. 

 Mr. W. C. Hazlitt believes that this lost play was in some degree 

 like the Dutch tragi-comedy. 



Orendel, the hero of the poem which Berger has edited, is the 

 son of Eigel. The name is found in Franconian and Bavarian 

 from the eighth to the eleventh centuries and appears in its earliest 

 form in Lombardy as Auriwandalus, which corresponds linguisti- 

 cally with Aurvandill or Horvandillus. The name, as Miillenhoff 



