Fierabras
Fierabras is an old French heroic epic ( chanson de geste ) from the 12th century from the saga of Charlemagne . It tells of the giant Fierabras, a pagan Saracen who is defeated by the Christian knight Olivier in Spain and converted to Christianity .
The fabric inspired Cervantes and Calderón . Franz Schubert wrote an opera Fierrabras (1823, D 796).
Also in the German Adult books of Karl Simrock one is Fierabras included.
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- Immanuel Bekker (ed.): The novel by Fierabras, Provençal. G. Reimer, Berlin 1829 ( digitized in the Google book search).
- Fierebras. Legend National. Traduite by Mary Lafon. Librairie Nouvelle, Paris 1857 (with 12 wood plates by Gustave Doré ).
- Auguste Kroeber, Gustave Marie Joseph Servois (eds.): Fierabras: chanson de geste (= Les Anciens poetes de la France. V. 4, no. 1) F. Vieweg, 1860 ( digitized in the Google book search).
- Fierabras: chanson de geste du XIIe siècle. Ed. by Marc Le Person (= Les Classiques français du moyen âge; 142). Champion, Paris 2003, ISBN 2-7453-0694-4 .
- Johann Gustav Büsching , Friedrich Heinrich von der Hagen (Hrsg.): Book of love. First volume. Hitzig, Berlin 1809, pp. 143-268 ( digitized version ). Prose retelling in German.
- Karl Simrock (Hrsg.): The German people books. Collected and restored to their original authenticity. Volume 7. Brönner, Frankfurt am Main 1850, pp. 1–166 ( digitized version ).
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