Crusade song
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Topic: Crusade song
Posted By: Guests
Subject: Crusade song
Date Posted: 03-Oct-2010 at 06:16
Greetings to the AllEmpires Community, I was listening to Youtube medieval music the other day and i came across an old crusade song about the Chistian-Muslim wars in the Iberian peninsula.
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Does anyone know the language used in this song?I don't speak Spanish but it doesn't sound like Spanish or Portugal to me.
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Posted By: opuslola
Date Posted: 03-Oct-2010 at 07:25
Whilst I am no expert on languages, I would suspect that the song is sung in either Catalan and/or Occitan, etc., which were the languages of the minstrels, troubadors etc.?
Perhaps I should have inserted this site?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Occitan_language
As well as this:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Troubadour
Regards,
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Posted By: Guests
Date Posted: 04-Oct-2010 at 07:12
Thanks Opuslola
I didn't know that the troubadours sang their poems mostly in the medieval Occitan language, which I find a beautiful and mysterious language.
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Posted By: red clay
Date Posted: 04-Oct-2010 at 08:27
Their songs, or poems were called Madrigals. Madrigals were first sung after the battle of Hastings in 1066, by the winners. The losers sat around singing, Shut up and deal.
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