Roman de Rou - Sources

Sources

Wace used as sources for his history of the Dukes of Normandy:

  • Gesta Normannorum Ducum
  • De moribus et actis primorum Normanniae ducum by Dudo of Saint-Quentin
  • Gesta Guillelmi by William of Poitiers
  • Gesta regum Anglorum by William of Malmesbury
  • Brevis relatio de Guillelmo nobilissimo comtie Normannorum
  • oral tradition, including information from his father, and his own eyewitness

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