Troubadours

The French word "amour" comes from the Occitan language through the troubadours, otherwise it would be "ameur".

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Surely the life of troubadours in the Middle Ages was not as idyllic as we see in the movies.

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"Then your worship understands rhyming too?" "And better than thou thinkest," replied Don Quixote, "as thou shalt see when thou carriest a letter written in verse from beginning to end to my lady Dulcinea del Toboso, for I would have thee know, Sancho, that all or most of the knights-errant in days of yore were great troubadours and great musicians, for both of these accomplishments, or more properly speaking gifts, are the peculiar property of lovers-errant: true it is that the verses of the knights of old have more spirit than neatness in them."

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Who were the troubadours?

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