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Can some wiki-savvy user change the title of this entry, to be simply 'Wace'. The 'Robert' is entirely ahistorical, and can be tracked back to the Abbe de la Rue and other antiquaries; nobody working on Anglo-Norman literature considers 'Robert' to be Wace's forename. Lutefish 20:43, 15 June 2004

[edit] Pronounciation?

How is his name pronounced? 69.137.220.179 05:18, 21 June 2006 (UTC)

Some pronounce "Wace" (to rhyme with face); some pronounce "Wace" (to rhyme with lass); some pronounce "Vace" (again rhyming with lass). How Wace himself pronounced his name is a matter of speculation - he wrote it as Wace, Vace, Vacce, Gace and possibly Guace.^[1] The intial sound may therefore have been some sort of /gw/ Man vyi 11:37, 21 June 2006 (UTC)

1. ^ The Roman de Rou, Burgess, 2002

Generally, in Norman (correct me if I'm wrong, Man vyi), Wace is pronounced /wɑs/. In French, it is pronounced /vɑs/. In English, it is usually pronounced /wes/, but sometimes /wæs/ or /wɑs/ (per Norman) or /vɑs/ (per French). The Jade Knight 18:51, 13 October 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Anglo-Norman?

Why is Wace described as an Anglo-Norman poet, and put in the Anglo-Norman category? Jersey was an integrated part of Normandy at the time and there is no evidence to suggest that he ever left the confines of the Duchy of Normandy at all, let alone ever visited England. Mon Vier 10:08, 7 April 2007 (UTC)

That would be anglo-normand in the Îles Anglo-Normandes sense, I suppose, in the way that Channel Island authors writing in the vernacular are sometimes described as Anglo-Norman. Man vyi 12:35, 7 April 2007 (UTC)