The account of the disaster was modified by successive trouvères, and the uncertainty of their methods may be judged by the fact that in the Chançun de Willame two consecutive accounts (11. 450-1326 and 1r. 1326-2420) of the fight appear to be set side by side as if they were separate episodes. Le Couronnement Looys, already mentioned, Le Charroi de Nîmes (12th century) in which Guillaume, who had been forgotten in the distribution of fiefs, enumerates his services to the terrified Louis, and Aliscans (12th century), with the earlier Chançun, are among the finest of the French epic poems. The figure of Vivien is among the most heroic elaborated by the poets, and the giant Rainouart has more than a touch of Rabelaisian humour. Component chansons The chansons de geste of the cycle of Guillaume are: Enfances Garin de Monglane (15th century) and Garin de Monglane (13th century), on which is founded the prose romance of Guerin de Monglane, printed in the 15th century by Jehan Trepperel and often later Girars de Viane (13th century, by Bertrand de Bar-sur-Aube), ed. P. Tarbe (Reims, 1850) Hernaut de Beaulande (fragment 14th century) Renier de Gennes, which only survives in its prose form Aymeri de Narbonne (c. 1210) by Bertrand de Bar-sur-Aube, ed. L bemaison (Soc. des anc. textes fr., Paris, 2 vols, 1887) Les Enfances Guillaume (13th century) Les Narbonnais, ed. H. Suchier (Soc. des anc. textes fr., 2 vols, 1898), with a Latin fragment dating from the 11th century, preserved at the Hague Le Couronnement Looys (ed. Ernest Langlois, 1888) Le Charroi de Nîmes La Prise d'Orange Le Covenant Vivien Aliscans (the previous five titles were edited by WJA Jonckbloet in vol. i. of his Guillaume d'Orange (The Hague, 1854); a critical text of Aliscans (Halle, 1903, vol. 1.) is edited by E Wienbeck, W Hartnacke and P Rasch) Loquifer and Le Moniage Rainouart (12th century) Bovon de Commarchis (13th century), recension of the earlier: Siege de Barbastre, by Adenet le Roi, ed. A Scheler (Brussels, 1874) Guibert d'Andrenas (13th century) La Prise de Cordres (13th century) La Mort Aymeri de Narbonne, ed. J Couraye de Parc (Paris: Société des anciens textes français, 1884) Foulque de Candie (ed. P Tarbe, Reims, 1860) Le Moniage Guillaume (12th century) Les Enfances Vivien (ed. C Wahlund and H von Feilitzen, Upsala and Paris, 1895) Chançun de Willame (Chiswick Press, 1903), described by P Meyer