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VALENTINE AND ORSON

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Originally appearing in Volume V27, Page 851 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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VALENTINE AND ORSON , a See also:romance which has been attached to the Carolingian See also:cycle. It is the See also:story of twin See also:brothers, abandoned in the See also:woods in See also:infancy. Valentine is brought up as a See also:knight at the See also:court of See also:Pippin, while Orson grows up in a See also:bear's den to be a See also:wild See also:man of the woods, until he is over-come and tamed by Valentine, whose servant and comrade he becomes. The two eventually See also:rescue their See also:mother Bellisant, See also:sister of Pippin and wife of the See also:emperor of See also:Greece, by whom she had been unjustly repudiated, from the See also:power of a See also:giant. There are versions of the See also:tale, which appears to See also:rest on a lost See also:French See also:original, in French, See also:English, See also:German, Icelandic, Dutch and See also:Italian. In the older versions Orson is described as the " nameless " one. The See also:kernel of the story lies in Orson's up-bringing and wildness, and is evidently a folk-tale the connexion of which with the Carolingian cycle is purely artificial. The story of the wife unjustly accused with which it is See also:bound up is sufficiently See also:common, and was told of the wives both of Pippin and See also:Charlemagne. The French See also:prose romance was printed at See also:Lyons in 1489 and often subsequently. The Historye of the two Valyannte Brethren: Valentyne and Orson ... by See also:Henry See also:Watson, printed by See also:William See also:Copland about 155o, is the earliest known of a See also:long See also:series of English versions. A ballad on the subject was printed in See also:Bishop See also:Percy's Reliques of English See also:Poetry, and the tale adapted for the nursery was illustrated by See also:Walter See also:Crane in the Three Bears' Picture See also:Book (1876). For a detailed bibliography of the English, French, German, Dutch and Italian forms of the tale, see W.

Seelman, " Valentin and Namelos " (See also:

Norden and See also:Leipzig, 1884), in vol. iv. of Niederdeutsche Denkmdler, edited by the Verein See also:fur niederdeutsche Sprachforschung.

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