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Originally appearing in Volume V18, Page 173 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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MERGE , the See also:

general name (as See also:Island of Meroe) for the region bounded on three sides by the See also:Nile (from See also:Atbara to See also:Khartum), the Atbara, and the See also:Blue Nile; and the See also:special name of an See also:ancient See also:city on the See also:east See also:bank of the Nile, 877 M. from See also:Wadi See also:Haifa by See also:river, and 554 by the route across the See also:desert, near the site of which is a See also:group of villages called Bakarawiya. The site of the city is marked by over two See also:hundred pyramids in three See also:groups, of which many are in ruinous See also:condition. After these ruins had been described by several travellers, among whom F. Cailliaud (Voyage a Meroe, See also:Paris, 1826-1828) deserves special mention, some excavations were executed; on a small See also:scale in 1834 by G. Ferlini (Cenno sugli scavi a perati nella See also:Nubia e catalego degli oggetti ritrovati, See also:Bologna, 1837), who discovered (or professed to discover) various antiquities, chiefly in the See also:form of See also:jewelry,- now in the museums of See also:Berlin and See also:Munich. The ruins were examined in 1844 by C. R. See also:Lepsius, who brought but none of them reached more than the See also:age of twenty or twenty-five; this was the age of the " rills faineants." Henceforth the real See also:sovereign was the See also:mayor of the See also:palace. The mayors of the palace belonging to the Carolingian See also:family were able to keep the See also:throne vacant for See also:long periods of See also:time, and finally, in 751 the mayor See also:Pippin, with the consent of the See also:pope See also:Zacharias, sent See also:King Childeric III. to the monastery of St Omer, and shut up his See also:young son See also:Thierry in that of St Wandrille. The Merovingian See also:race thus came to an end in the See also:cloister. Merovingian See also:Legend.—It has long been conceded that the See also:great See also:French See also:national epics of the 1 ith and 12th centuries must have been founded on a great fund of popular See also:poetry, and that many of the episodes of the chansons de geste refer to See also:historical events anterior .to the Carolingian See also:period, Floovant is obviously connected with the GestaDagoberti, and there are traces of the See also:influence of popular songs on the Frankish heroes in See also:Gregory of See also:Tours and other chroniclers. See G.

Kurth, Hist. poet. See also:

des Merovingiens (Paris, See also:Brussels and See also:Leipzig, 1893) ; A. See also:Darmesteter, De Floovante vetustiore allico poemate (Paris, 1877); Floovant (Paris, 1859); ed. MM. F. uessard and H. Michelant; P. Rajna, , Delle Origin dell' epopea francese (See also:Florence, 1884), with which cf. G. Paris in Romania, xiii. 602 seq. ; F. Settegast, Quellenstudien zur gallo-romanischen Epik (Leipzig, 1904) ; C.

Voretzsch, Epische Studien (See also:

Halle, 1900); H. Groeber, Grundriss d. See also:roman. Phil. (Bd. II., See also:abt. i. pp. 447 seq.), (C.

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