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Updated: May 13, 2025
The joculator or jongleur Taillefer, who was with William the Conqueror's army at Hastings, marched before the Norman troops, so said the tradition, singing "of Charlemagne and of Roland and of Oliver, and of the vassals who died at Roncevaux"; and it is suggested that in the Chanson de Roland by one Turoldus or Theroulde, a poem preserved in a manuscript of the twelfth century in the Bodleian Library at Oxford, we have certainly the matter, perhaps even some of the words, of the chant which Taillefer sang.
Then suddenly, as if inspired to a wilder flight by his own minstrelsy, the jongleur, sweeping his hand over the chords, broke forth into an air admirably expressive of the picture which his words, running into a rude, but lively and stirring doggerel, attempted to paint. The March of the Grand Company. Tira, tirala trumpet and drum Rising bright o'er the height of the mountain they come!
"Emilia," she said, "I wish you would translate the I Jongleur de Notre Dame' into Italian." Peter, we may suppose, returned to Villa Floriano that afternoon in a state of some excitement. "He ought to have told her " "It was her right to be told " "What could her rank matter " "A gentleman can offer his hand to any woman " "She would have despised the conventional barriers "
A ragged minstrel, or jongleur, with an immense beard and mustachios, was tuning, with no inconsiderable skill, a lute which had accompanied him in all his wanderings and suddenly changing its notes into a wild and warlike melody, he commenced in a loud and deep voice the following song: The Praise of the Grand Company.
Either Perion would not be brought to tell where the emeralds were hidden, in which event Bracciolini would kill the jongleur for his bungling; or else the prisoner would tell everything necessary, in which event Bracciolini would kill the jongleur for knowing more than was convenient.
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