Arnaut de Tintinhac

In his expressions he is reminiscent of Marcabru and Bernart Marti and in his aggressive attitude towards encouraging courtly love he also resembles the early troubadours. Like other early Gascon troubadours, such as Peire de Valeira, he employed nature metaphors, as at the beginning of this song: •: Molt dezis l'aura doussana:lanquan vei los albros floritz:et aug d'auzels grans e petitz:lur chans per vergiers e per plais: e, qui d'amor ha enveja: si.n aquel temps no se pleja:no vueill son lonc respeit mi do. —: I much desire the sweet aura:when I see the trees in flower:and I hear the birds great and small:their songs, by the orchards and the fences: and, who for love has yearned: if this time I do not submit to it:I do not wish it to concede me respite. The vida of Peire de Valeira seems to confuse its intended subject with Arnaut (at least at some points). It goes like this: Peire de Valeira was from Gascony, from the land of Lord Arnaut Guillem de Marsan. He was a minstrel at the very same time in which Marcabru lived, and he composed poems such as were made at the time, of slight worth, about leaves and flowers and songs and birds.

The recorded working language is Old Occitan.