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The only one mediaeval verse-chronicle written in Brittany, the Roman d'Aiquin reached us in the form of a manuscript from the XVth Century. Such a text, of no particular literary value in spite of its stressed localism and of the attention borne to the sea, reveals more interest on a historical level : first of all, it recalls to mind the presence of the Vikings in the region of Alet/Saint-Malo, a presence confirmed by archaeological research, even though the invaders in question are clad with moslem gear. The roman tells about the various stages of the fight led by Charlemagne to try and drive them away, then, after King Aiquin 's flight from the city, the various episodes of the pursuit through the Armorican peninsula organized by Duke Naimes while the wounded emperor is languishing. The whole chronicle in fact is a palimpsest of Breton history which gives a prominent role to the archbishop of Dol and to Duke Naimes, seen by some as the distorted figure of Nominoe, a leading Breton from the IXth century confronted to the Franks.
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