À propos du chant des oiseaux dans le Chevalier au Lion et d’un passage de Clément d’Alexandrie
Date issued
2022
In
Medioevo Romanzo
No
46
From page
180
To page
184
Reviewed by peer
1
Abstract
On propose ici de rapprocher un motif narratif apparaissant dans le Chevalier au Lion de Chrétien de Troyes et un fait mythologique rapporté par Clément d’Alexandrie dans les Stromates dix siècles plus tôt. La similitude des deux textes, non imputable à quelque emprunt direct de l'un à l'autre, permet de postuler, à l'aune d'une reconstitution du parcours philologique de ce motif, qu'il est peut-être issu d’un archétype de tradition orale bretonne, ayant fait indépendamment sa voie vers les deux témoins textuels subsistants.
We hereby propose to compare a narrative motif appearing in Chrétien de Troyes' Chevalier au Lion and a mythological fact reported by Clement of Alexandria in the Stromata ten centuries earlier. The similarity of the two texts cannot be tributed to any direct borrowing from one to the other: therefore, it is possible to postulate, in the light of a reconstruction of the philological transmission of this motif, that it may originate an archetype of Breton oral tradition, having independently made its way to the two surviving textual witnesses.
We hereby propose to compare a narrative motif appearing in Chrétien de Troyes' Chevalier au Lion and a mythological fact reported by Clement of Alexandria in the Stromata ten centuries earlier. The similarity of the two texts cannot be tributed to any direct borrowing from one to the other: therefore, it is possible to postulate, in the light of a reconstruction of the philological transmission of this motif, that it may originate an archetype of Breton oral tradition, having independently made its way to the two surviving textual witnesses.
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