Article: Folk Literature of the Sephardic Jews, vol. 3: Judeo-Spanish Ballads from Oral Tradition, II; Carolingian Ballads: Roncevalles.

This volume in Armistead and Silverman's monumental projected series continues the work of the preceding one, with the same format: musical transcription, texts, commentary, appendices, bibliography, indices. Three Carolingian ballads are discussed "Almerique de Narbona and Roncevalles," "El Cautivario de Guarinos and el Sueno de Dona Aldo" and "La Muerte de Don Beltran." While this is only half the number of ballads considered in the previous volume (Epic Ballads), if anything their treatment is even more exhaustive.

In the Introduction, the goals of the series are reiterated: to define the ballads' place in the Judeo-Spanish romancero, to examine their ...

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