Raimon Jordan

[2][4] This affair was originally in a vida of Bertran de Born, but it was cut out and placed in Jordan's own vida-razo at a later date.

It was copied by the later troubadour Peire Cardenal for his Rics homs que greu ditz vertat e leu men.

Though Jordan is not usually regarded as a master by modern standards, the Monge de Montaudon, writing in the 1190s in the generation after him, gave him a high place in his Pos Peire d'Alvernh'a cantat.

[1] He refers to the "solace of the savage" (aissi farai lo conort del salvatge) and remarks that the expectation of joy makes him brave and that therefore he should better enjoy the snowfall rather than the blossoming of the flowers.

The sufferings of love were compared to the buffeting of a tempestuous sea, a metaphor which was common enough in the literature of the time, when the sea was typically viewed as dangerous: In another passage, Jordan explains that his song is an "interpreter" of his sorrows to the lady for whom he is suffering: Indeed, his devotion to a lady knew no bounds and he was a sacrilegious poet.

In one of his more famous passages he exclaims that he would give up eternity in Paradise for one night with a certain lady: Jordan wrote one canso for performance by women.

In the last stanza of the canso, the female performer says: Que quascus hom deu razonar son fraire E queia domna sa seror .