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Marcabru
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Marcabru
Assatz m’es bel el temps essuig
293.
8
Marcabru
Text

Edition: Simon Gaunt, Ruth Harvey and Linda Paterson 2000; notes: Linda Paterson. – Rialto 23.xii.2002.

Mss.

E (155).

Critical Editions / Other Editions

Previous editions: Jean-Marie-Lucien Dejeanne, Poésies complètes du troubadour Marcabru, Toulouse 1909, p. 32 (VIII); Simon Gaunt, Ruth Harvey and Linda Paterson, Marcabru: A Critical Edition, Cambridge, D. S. Brewer, 2000, p. 118.

Metrics and music

Versification: a8 a8 b8 a8 b8 (Frank 117:3). Ten coblas doblas, with apparently three tornadas of four, four and three lines.

General info

Stanzas XI-XIII are generally taken to refer to the expedition mounted in the early months of 1130 by Guilhem X to support his rebel kinsman, Thibaut de Blaizon, besieged in the castle of Mirebeau by his overlord Geoffrey of Anjou. Since Guilhem became the ally of Geoffrey in the campaign in Normandy in the autumn of 1136, this would appear to be the terminus ante quem

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