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Huon de Bordeaux

French poem
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Huon de Bordeaux, Old French poem, written in epic metre, dating from the first half of the 13th century. Charlot, son of the emperor Charlemagne, lays an ambush for Huon, son of Séguin of Bordeaux; but Huon kills Charlot without being aware of his identity. Huon is then saved from hanging by performing a series of seemingly impossible tasks.

Thought to be based on Huon d’Auvergne—a hypothetical earlier version that told a much grimmer other-world story—Huon de Bordeaux marks the transition from the epic chanson de geste, based on national history, to the roman d’aventure, or romance. Huon de Bordeaux had a great vogue in England through a prose translation by John Bouchier, Lord Berners, that was printed c. 1534 by Wynkyn de Worde. This was used as a source book by Edmund Spenser, William Shakespeare, and John Keats.