ABSTRACT
CHAPTER IX: THE SONS OF A YMON Avmon and Charlemagne T HE different chansons de gestes relating to Aymon and the necromancer Malagigi, or Malagis, prob-
ably arose from popular ballads commemorating the struggles of Charles the Bald and his feudatories. These ballads are at least as old as the events which they were intended to record, but the chansons de gestes based upon them, and entitled cc Duolin de Mayence," "Aymon, Son of Duolin de Mayence," cc Maugis," (( Rinaldo de Trebizonde," (( The Four Sons of Aymon," and" Mabrian," are of much later date, and were particularly admired during the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries.
