It is made up of 2198 lines, grouped in 53 monorhymed laisses of alexandrines (1-138) and decasyllables (139-2198), but the last fifteen being only partially readable [1], the end of the story remains a mystery.
[3] Daurel e Betó was written in the late twelfth or the early first half of the thirteenth century[4] and is connected with the cycle of Charlemagne, but by the romantic character of the events is more like a regular romance of adventure.
Excluding the cities of Paris and Babylon, all the places evoked in the tale are located in a region comprised between Poitiers and Agen,[5] where it was probably composed.
peyró, Entorn lu son Fransés, tuh li melhor baró Aquí fo lo coms Gui cui doné Dieu mal do!
Listen, if you will, heed the story Of a rich duke from France and the young Count Guy [of Southampton], Of Daurel the minstrel and Beton the child, Who in his youth went through great suffering.