Aigar e Maurin

Aigar e Maurin is an anonymous

decasyllabic and divided into 44 rhyming laisses.^[2]^[3] The fragments—two single folios—were bound in a legal manuscript of the sixteenth century.^[2]^[3]

The place of origin of Aigar e Maurin is uncertain. It is usually thought to come from

revolt of the Young King in 1173.^[2]

Linguistically, Aigar is similar to Girart de Roussillon, but it is not clear in which direction the influence went.^[1] It contains signs of Anglo-Norman influence, and may even be a reworking of an originally Anglo-Norman poem. Olivier Naudeau went so far as to call its language a composite of Occitan and Norman French.^[2] Linda Paterson describes its tone as "primitive".^[1] In writing an essentially military tale,^[1] the poet displays some familiarity with military camps.^[2]

Its subject matter and point of view are unique among Occitan works, since it recounts the Capetian–Plantagenet rivalry from an Anglo-Norman perspective.^[1]^[3] Maurin, a Frenchman, is the vassal of the English king, Aigar, just as Henry II was a vassal of King Louis VII of France.^[2]

References

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doi:10.1093/fmls/xvii.2.115

^ ^a ^b ^c ^d ^e ^f ^g Robert A Taylor (2015), A Bibliographical Guide to the Study of Troubadours and Old Occitan Literature (Kalamazoo: Medieval Institute Publications), p. 182.
^ ^a ^b ^c ^d ^e Carol Sweetenham and Linda M. Paterson (2017), The Canso d'Antioca: An Occitan Epic Chronicle of the First Crusade (Routledge).

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doi:10.1093/fmls/xvii.2.115

[RAT-2] ^ ^a ^b ^c ^d ^e ^f ^g Robert A Taylor (2015), A Bibliographical Guide to the Study of Troubadours and Old Occitan Literature (Kalamazoo: Medieval Institute Publications), p. 182.

[CSLP-3] Carol Sweetenham and Linda M. Paterson (2017), The Canso d'Antioca: An Occitan Epic Chronicle of the First Crusade (Routledge).

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