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  • In Northern France the poet was called a trouvere, in Provence a troubadour, in Germany a minnesinger.

    Song and Legend from the Middle Ages Porter Lander MacClintock 1906

  • My favourite character was the fictional troubadour strictly speaking a trouvere, as he tells us, since he comes from the north of France Bernard de Sezanne.

    Archive 2009-12-01 Carla 2009

  • Fountainlike gyrations earned the free trouvere the name of master,

    Postcard from America: On the Road, Alan Ansen, part one : A.E. Stallings : Harriet the Blog : The Poetry Foundation 2007

  • My favourite character was the fictional troubadour strictly speaking a trouvere, as he tells us, since he comes from the north of France Bernard de Sezanne.

    Outlaw, by Angus Donald. Book review Carla 2009

  • Walter Scott, the modern trouvere, was then giving a gigantic vogue to a kind of composition unjustly called secondary.

    Balzac 2003

  • He remembered a trouvere at a feast singing of how the Greeks went to war because Helen, wife of one of their kings, ran off with Paris, prince of Troy.

    The Saracen: The Holy War Robert Shea 1963

  • We find that Tallifer the Norman trouvere, who accompanied William to the invasion of England, went before his hosts at Hastings, reciting the Norman prowess and might, and flung himself upon the Saxon phalanx where he met his doom.

    The Poetry of Wales John Jenkins

  • Legrand's and Barbasan's collections, especially the trouvere Dutant's

    Filipino Popular Tales Dean Spruill Fansler

  • Walter Scott, the modern _trouvere_, was then giving a gigantic vogue to a kind of composition unjustly called secondary.

    Balzac Frederick Lawton

  • We read that the example of the trouvere aroused the Norman hosts to an enthusiasm which precipitated them upon the Saxon ranks with unwonted courage and frenzy.

    The Poetry of Wales John Jenkins

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