Raimon Jordan
Videos
Raimon Jordan was a Toulousain troubadour and the viscount of Saint-Antonin in the Rouergue near the boundary with Quercy. His poetry was in Old Occitan.
Raimon Jordan
Raimon Jordan
Vida (Occitan literary form)
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Vida is the usual term for a brief prose biography, written in Old Occitan, of a troubadour or trobairitz.
Raimon Jordan
…was a Toulousain troubadour and the viscount of Saint-Antonin in the Rouergue near the boundary with Quercy. His poetry was in Old Occitan. There is a vida of Jordan which exists in several manuscripts, some with an accompanying razo. Like typical vidas, it tell us where he was from and whom he loved. He…
An illustration of Guillem de Cabestany accompanies his vida in the chansonnier. He is apparently leaving.