edited and translated by Glyn S. Burgess
Edinburgh 1998
ISBN 978 9519791 3 6
 
The Pèlerinage de Charlemagne is one of the most subtly entertaining of surviving Old French texts.  Although in many ways an epic poem, it provides a unique blend of seriousness and comedy, as well as a fascinating portrait of the exotic East.  Charlemagne, the Frankish king, is far from the heroic figure of poems such as the Chanson de Roland, yet he wins a great victory over his rival, King Hugo of Constantinople.
 
This new edition, with a facing-page translation into English, an introduction and notes, makes accessible to a wider audience a poem which one critic has described as ‘a distinctive and charming jewel’.