Folcho's ship: Unpublished laisses of the Franco-Italian Foucon de Candie

Foucon de Candie is an epic poem dating to the last two decades of the twelfth century. In the first part, it tells the story of Foucon, one of Charlemagne's nephews, acquiring the Saracen city of Candie. The still unpublished Franco-Italian version of this chanson de geste contains some laisses that are not in the rest of the French tradition. In this article I publish and comment on two of them which describe the galley of Foucon (La nef Folcho mult est bien atorné e Per gran maistrixie hont afermé un doion).