Canção dos Quatro Ciclos

My own original version of the verses by Medieval French poet Jean Bodel describing the great «three matters» of European medieval literature (French Charlemagne legends, King Arthur legends, and myths about the deeds of ancient Rome and its Trojan and Greek mythical forerunners). Here, it is on the main four "cycles" of stories in which we can divide Portuguese heroic literature: the Portuguese-Spanish stories on the fictional Palmeirins/Palmeirines royal knights dynasty, Portuguese stories on the Order of Chivalry (from Bacchus conquest in India to the end of chivalry with the Battle of Alcazar El Kebir, passing by the knights of the Roman Empire, of King Arthur and of Charlemagne), the romances of the dynasty of heirs of king-hero Abidis or its medievalist version Amadis of Gaul, and the stories set in the dynasties of kings of Portugal and Spain mostly named A(l)fonso ("time of the Afonsinhos/Little-Afonsos", in Portuguese parlance). Like my sung version of Bodel's verses, not having found a melody associated to the "Chanson de Saines" online, I used a mixture of the melody of the Norse version of the also carolingian "chanson de geste" "La Chanson de Roland" (or "Rolandskva") and of the melody of Bodel's song "Les un pin verdoiant" (here repeated). All rights belong to its rightful owners. Encontrem-me em/Find me on Facebook: /VitorMonteiroYTetc/ Patreon: /user?u=88263143 Vimeo: /user148437594 DailyMotion: /vmonteiro-vaferreiramonteiro OK.Ru: /585008521049