Senhors, Per los Nostres Peccatz - Early Reconquista Song by Gavaudan

First off: this version was recorded by the Musica Antigua Group, directed by Eduardo Paniagua. If you like it, support them by subscribing and watching their other songs, buying their CD’s. () Now to the history behind the song: This one is very provocative, and was probably written around the 1200s, between the lowest point of the Reconquista, when the moors were defeating the Iberians in almost every battle, and its tide-changers. The Moroccan king had threatened to “March all the way to Rome and sweep the Basilica of Saint Peter with the Sword of Muhammad“, and this kind of insulted Gavaudan, an occitanian troubador who then wrote this song as a rally cry for the faithful Catholic fiefdoms of Medieval Europe to unite at once and not let this happen. Lyrics : Senhors, per los nostres peccatz creys la forsa dels Sarrazis: Jherusalem pres Saladis et encaras non es cobratz; per que manda·l reys de Marroc qu’ab totz los reys de Crestias se combatra ab sos trefas Andolozitz et Arabitz contra la fe de Crist garnitz. Totz los alcavis a mandatz: masmutz, maurs, goitz e barbaris, e no·y reman gras ni mesquis que totz no·ls aya·n ajostatz: anc pus menut ayga non ploc cum elhs passon e prendo·ls plas; la caraunhada dels milas geta·ls paysser, coma berbitz, e no·y reman brotz ni razitz. Tant an d’erguelh selh qu’a triatz qu’els cujo·l mons lur si’aclis; Marroquenas, Marabetis pauzon a mons per mieg los pratz; mest lor gabon: «Franc, faiz nos loc! Nostr’es Proensa e Tolzas, entro al Puey totz lo mejas!» Anc tan fers gaps no fon auzitz dels falses cas, ses ley, marritz. Emperaire, vos o aujatz, e·l reys de Frans’e sos cozis, e·l reys engles, coms peitavis: qu’al rey d’Espanha secorratz! Que anc mais negus mielhs no poc a servir Dieu esser propdas: ab Luy venseretz totz los cas cuy Bafometz a escarnitz e·ls renegatz outrasalhitz. Jhezus Cristz, que·ns a prezicatz per que fos bona nostra fis, nos demostra qu’es dregz camis: qu’ab penedens’er perdonatz lo peccatz que d’Adam se moc. E vol nos far ferms e certas, si·l crezem, qu’ab los sobiras nos metra, e sara·ns la guitz sobre·ls fals fellos descauzitz. Non laissem nostras heretatz, pus qu’a la gran fe em assis, a cas negres outramaris; q’usquecx ne sia perpessatz enans que·l dampnatge nos toc! Portogals, Gallicx, Castellas, Navars, Aragones, Serdas lur avem en barra gequitz qu’els an rahuzatz et aunitz. Quan veyran los baros crozatz, Alamans, Frances, Cambrezis, Engles, Bretos et Angevis, Biarns, Gascos, ab nos mesclatz, e·ls Provensals, totz en un floc, saber podetz qu’ab los Espas romprem la preyss’e·l cap e·ls mas, tro·ls ajam mortz totz e delitz; pueys er mest nos totz l’aurs partitz. Profeta sera·n Gavaudas que·l digz er faitz. E mortz als cas! E Dieus er honratz e servitz on Bafometz era grazitz.