Thanks again all!
Barre, the Vermont text if it's the same one that's in the Flanders
Collection is one she says is based on a rewritten poem--and if this
doesn't absolutely clinch it, I don't know what would: it has quoted
quoted speech in the Flanders collection version. WAY too much embedding
for ballad sense, it seems to me (though others may have examples with
better credentials from oral tradition). I can send you the reference if
you want it.
I also found a book (again don't have the reference here, but if you're
interested I could get it from work) in which "Reynardine" is discussed
as "son of Reynard"--from the Reynard the Fox text.
Pauline
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