Note 469 — Chapter V · THE DIFFERENCING ELEMENTS OF COMMUNAL POETRY

See, however, the caution uttered by M. Jeanroy against the idea that songs of the Carmina Burana represent popular poetry (Origines de la Poésie Lyrique en France, pp. 304 f.). Ingenious repetition, whether in refrains of the triolet type, or in the Portuguese type represented by these verses, and in certain other poems of artificial construction (Jeanroy, p. 309):—

Per ribeira do rio

vy remar o navio;

et sabor ey da ribeyra!

Per ribeyra do alto

vy remar o barco;

et sabor, etc.

Vy remar o navio

hy vay o meu amigo;

et sabor, etc.

Vy remar o barco,

hy vay o meu amado;

et sabor, etc.

are probably no popular making. See, however, above, p. 139, the folksong of this type.