Vida: Ademar lo Negre

N'Aimars lo Negres si fo del Castelveill d'Albi. en, n', ·n - "sir," often with elision as here Aimars lo Negres - "Aimar the Black" si - "thus" often introduces verbs at the beginning of a vidas with no appreciable change in meaning from the simple verb fo(n) - 3rd. singular. preterit of eser; "was" del = de lo "of the, from the" Castelveill d'Albi - modern Château-Vieux Cortes hom fo e gen parlanz. cortés "polite, courtly" (h)om, lo "man" fo - 3rd. singular. preterit of eser; "he was" e (et before vowels) "and" gén "nicely, well" parlar "speak;" here masculine singular present participle; Take gen parlanz as "eloquent." E fo ben onratz entre la bona gen, be(n) "well; indeed, quite" onrar "to honor, show respect for;" here a masc.sing. past participle; with fo "was honored" éntre "among; between" bon "good;" here fem.sg. géns, la "people" per lo rei Peire d'Aragon e per lo comte Raimon de Tolosa per "through, throughout, along; over; because of, by means of; by" rei, lo "king" Peire d'Aragon, Peter II of Aragon (1196-1213) coms, lo (obl.sg. comte) "count" Raimon VI of Toulouse (1194-1222) - excommunicated during the Albigensian Crusade, and had his estate taken from him at the Latran Council (1215) Tolosa modern Toulouse que·ill donet masons e terras a Tolosa. que "who," relative pronoun ·ill = li 3rd person singular pronoun, "to him" donar "to give, grant" here 3rd.sg. preterit ma(i)son, la (obl. mason; pl. masons) "house" terra, la "land" a "to; at; by; in" E fez cansos tals com saup faire. faire "to do, make;" here fe(t)z 3rd.sg. preterit "he made" cansó(n), la "song;" here oblique plural tals ... com "such as" sabér "to know; to learn;" here saup 3rd.sg. preterit Adapted from Biographies des Troubadors, page 1.

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