Swallows & tents

I hadn’t actually yet found the swallow reference in the Llibre dels Feits when I posted the original article. Here at last is Jaume, Chapter 215:

Jaume was born in Montpellier, where some folks still speak Languedocian, and the text isn’t in “normal” C13th Barcelona-babble; I find bits of it difficult and would welcome correction of this particular example and any that follow. Here’s a summary in Catalan of the differences between the two languages, here’s a good Occitanian source guide, and this is the original text:

Given the amount of money wasted by the Generalitat and other dens of nepotism on internet projects, I’m surprised that there doesn’t seem to be an online version of this little number. I reckon a keen philology student working from an out-of-copyright edition could do it in slightly more than a week, hashish breaks included.

Tentspotters may wish to speculate on the exact nature of the tent with the aid of Stephen Francis Wyley’s excellent Tents of History site. Medieval Pavilion Resources is also very good.

Source: Jaume I, Crònica o Llibre dels Feits ed Ferran Soldevila (Barcelona: Editions 62, 1994).

Update

This is a complete coincidence, but a bunch of swallows (I reckon they’re Delichon urbica, Oreneta cuablanca in Catalan) have just nested outside Raïms‘ flat. And he’s got pictures. He also explains how to check other students’ details on the Generalitat’s communal university site - one of the many fine successes referred to above. Another reader has informed me that s/he intends to explain publicly how to access La Vanguardia’s internal systems because of the failure of their ombudsman to address the Rafael Ramos illiteracy/plagiarism case. I sincerely hope that this is a hoax.

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