![]() Guibert de Nogent ( De Vita sua, book 3, chap.viii., printed Paris, 1651), in referring to the disturbances at Laon in 1112, says that the bishop Gaudri was accustomed to call one of his enemies Isengrim, and it is obvious from the context that the taunt was perfectly understood by the popular mind. There is abundant evidence that Isengrim and Reynard were firmly established in the popular imagination in the 13th century, and even earlier. Krohn, who discovered many of the stories most characteristic of the cycle in existing Finnish folklore, where they can hardly have arrived through learned channels. Jacob Grimm ( Reinhart Fuchs, 1834) maintained their popular origin his theories, which have been much contested, have received additional support from the researches of K. The tales, like those of "Uncle Remus," were amusing in themselves they were based on widely diffused folklore, and Reynard and his companions were not originally men disguised as animals. The intention of the trouveres who recited the exploits of Reynard was, in the earlier stages, in no sense didactic. Much of the material may be found in Aesop, in Physiologus, and in the 12th-century Disciplina Clericalis of Petrus Alfonsus. The cycle of animal stories collected round the names of Reynard the Fox and Isengrim the Wolf in the 12th century seems to have arisen on the borderland of France and Flanders. ![]() ![]() REYNARD THE FOX, a beast-epic, current in French, Dutch and German literature. ![]()
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