Abstract
This attitude is not always shared by some of the most prestigious scholars who have ever demonstrated their critical acumen in isolating and explaining the essence of the epic genre. Their enmity to any kind of serious identification of ethnic and geographic names in the French chansons de geste is notorious. Certainly no other passage of epic poetry had roused a more negative reaction from both the traditionalist and neotraditionalist camps than did the Baligant episode in the 0 MS. of the Chanson de Roland; no other critic-historian of world renown argued more devastatingly against the episode's euthenticity, its organic incorporation in the MS as a whole, and the aesthetic necessity of its raison d'etre than did Ramon Menendez Pidal. Pidal disparages first of all the episode's organic relation with the rest
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