Note 81 — I 1185-1325

Riquier’s segriers per totas cortz (King Alfonso X (C. M. 194) speaks of a jograr andando pelas cortes). See also C. V. 556. The word probably has no connexion with seguir (to follow). Possibly it was used originally to differentiate singers of profane songs, cantigas profanas e seculares. Frei João Alvarez in his Cronica do Infante Santo has ‘obras ecclesiasticas e segrãaes’; King Duarte counted among os pecados da boca ‘cantar cantigas sagraaes’, The Cancioneiros show that the segrel was far less common than the jogral in the thirteenth century. For segre (= saeculum) see infra, p. 93, n. 2.