[6] D. 1214.
[7] It was entitled El Arte de Trobar, and is badly abridged in Mayan’s Orígenes de la Lengua Española (Madrid, 1737).
[8] On Provençal influence upon Castilian literature see Manuel Milá y Fontanal, Trovadores en España (Barcelona, 1887); and E. Baret, Espagne et Provence (1857), on a lesser scale.
[9] Still they found many Spanish-speaking people in that area; and it was the Romance speech of these which finally prevailed in Spain.
[10] Madrid, 1839.
[11] In the Cancionero de Romances (Antwerp, 1555).
[12] See the article on Alfonso XI in N. Antonio, Bibliotheca Hispana Vetus.
[13] English translation by James York.
[14] Reigned 1407–54.
[15] Gaston Paris, La Littérature Française au Moyen Age (Paris, 1888), and Léon Gautier, Les Épopées Française (Paris, 1878–92), are the leading authorities upon the chansons de gestes. Accounts of these in English can be found in Ludlow’s Popular Epics of the Middle Ages (1865) and in my Dictionary of Medieval Romance (1913).