If Occitan had been preserved in France, there would be more "continuity", like a corridor of intelligibility connecting Italy, France and Spain. Provençal has a very rich literary and musical culture in the work of the Medieval Troubadours, who were an important influence for Italian Poets like Dante and Cavalcanti. Viva le Lingue Romanze, Saluti dall'Italia!

Le loup est le "roi", le renard est le "noble" et le lièvre est "l'église". Le loup et le renard volent le bétail et le lièvre endommage les champs de blé. Ce sont tous trois des créatures maléfiques. La souffrance de les agriculteurs médiévaux sont clairement visibles.

Latin didn't die It just blossomed into several beautiful languages

7+ centuries later and it still GOES HARD

It represents medieval society: The wolf is the King, the fox the aristocracy and the hare is the the clergy. The peasant works all year for little pay and gets screwed by them while all they do is dance.

The Medieval "we live in a society" song.

I saw the wolf, the fox, and the hare dancing in the circle around the tree... and I've started to think to myself: I should better skip these strange mushrooms next time.

It's eerie how familiar this is, and yet how different.

Funny how people in the 13th century already invented the term "getting fucked over".

This is the epitome of “I’ll listen to anything”

Sounds like Lombard, my mother tongue. Incredible

This ancient song strikes a complex feeling I often have but struggle to find sympathy with; I look out at the beauty of nature, and creatures doing their own thing, while stuck at my gas station job and think "I wasn't born to live like this."

French people: wow I understand everything Catalan people: wow I understand everything Italian people: wow I understand everything English people: ... can I join guys? EDIT: I noticed how several replies assumed that I'm an english speaker. I am not. I was just giving a general overview on the comment section

Omg i am from North Italy and Is like hearing my regional dialect!

its very similar to catalan, fascinating

As an Italian, I had understood all of the words 😮

Пусть я и не понимаю ни единого слова, но всё равно песня звучит очень красиво.

I've become obsessed with this song

Dançar, ganhar, lebre, mesada, exatamente as mesmas palavras em português, fascinante esse occitano.

Selon le site d'Arles le loup serait une représentation du soldat, le renard du clerc et le lièvre du percepteur d'impots. Aussi la chanson fut adaptée en français sous le nom de "j'ai vu le loup le renard la belette"

As a Southern Italian I can understand some words, it's really fascinating how close the Latin languages are

Reminds me of the Louisiana Cajun French song recorded by the Balfa Brothers "J'ai vu le loup, le renard e la belette, j'ai vu le loup e le renard danser"

The context of this song is still relatable to this day

"J'entends le loup, le renard et la belette. J'entends le loup et le renard danser ". Qu'on chante au Canada-Français, de la jument de Michao, de Bretagne.

*Tradução em português* Eu vi o lobo, a raposa, a lebre, Eu vi o lobo, a raposa a dançar, Todos os três gíram em volta da árvore Eu vi o lobo, a raposa, a lebre, Todos os três gíram em volta da árvore, Eles gíram em torno do arbusto florente Vi a lobo,a raposa e a lebre. Aqui trabalhamos o ano todo Para ganhar alguns centavos, E em questão de um mês, Eu vi o lobo, a raposa, a lebre, Não temos mais nada (*literalmente*:eles enfiaram na nossa bunda) Eu vi a lebre, a raposa, o lobo

Translation in Catalan (if needed ^^): He vist lo llop, la guineu, la llebre He vist lo llop, la guineu dansar: Tots tres anaven entorn de l'arbre He vist lo llop, la guineu, la llebre Tots tres anaven entorn de l'arbre Anaven entorn de la botja frondosa. Aquí treballem tot l'any Per guanyar quelques sous. Res, que dins una mesada He vist lo llop, la guineu, la llebre Nos ho fotem tot pel cul He vist la llebre, la guineu, lo llop! (repeteix primera estrofa x2) Aquí treballem tot l'any Per guanyar quelques sous. Res, que dins una mesada He vist lo llop, la guineu, la llebre Nos ho fotem tot pel cul He vist la llebre, la guineu, lo llop! He vist lo llop, la guineu, la llebre He vist lo llop, la guineu dansar: Tots tres anaven entorn de l'arbre He vist lo llop, la guineu, la llebre Tots tres anaven entorn de l'arbre Anaven entorn de la botja frondosa. He vist lo llop, la guineu dansar.

Nos lourdes et profondes racines.

As a center Italian I can understand all the written text easily. I found the pronunciation harder to grasp.

In Québec, some people, usually elders, will pronounce "arbre" the same way they say it in that song. Although most of our ancestors came from the "langue d'oïl" area.

Aquesta cançó en occità és magnífica! Em va encantar!

There's a Québécois version of this song!!

wonderfully medieval!

Que cant polit, avèm força d'astrée d'aver totas las culturas nóstras dins lo nóstre ostal França

i'm from catalonia and i love how i can sing along the song and understand the lyrics just from listening to it

je connaissais déjà la musique mais sans les sous titre et ce n'est qu'avec les paroles cote à cote qu'on voit au final les racines avec le français actuel et c'est en réalité assez proche malgré qu'à l'oreille sa paraisse complétement étranger. Merci pour la vidéo, une de plus que j'ai apprécié

As I understand, the meaning of this song about hallucinations caused by starving peasant. He worked a lot, but he earned nothing (a few coins). And he sees a miracle of dancing hare, wolf and fox in the woods

It's crazy that a latinamerican can understand most of this by himself. Romans gave us a beautiful heritage.

This has got to be the missing link between French, Italian, and Catalan since all 3 of them seem to understand it perfectly.

Que dieu préserve mon Occitanie! ❤💛❤ Il faudrait divulguer ce genre de contenu sur les réseaux sociaux comme Tiktok pour plus de visibilité.

Sounds a lot like the traditional chants from the north of spain, so cool

Respect from Lombardy, northern Italy.

Incroyable… récemment, j’ai trouvé un intérêt pour la musique ancienne, et ce chant l’a tellement amplifié ! Il faut que j’apprenne l’occitan maintenant.

Like if you are a 1300s kid

Не знаю, как мне эта песня попалась в рекоммендациях, но я не против

As an Italian ( Lombard ) I can understand all the word 😂

It's easily understandable for Spanish speakers and I guess for catalan speakers too. ❤

c est magnifique. Je veux debarquer dans une taverne et danser toute la nuit dessus

Its a weird comparison, but this song reminds me of the tune Mr. Tumnus plays for Lucy when she first enters Narnia in the movie. I can't quite put my finger on why though.

Best version in YT

I speak catalan and I can understand it

En miniature, des furries médiévales !

Une des meilleures chaînes !

In the Burgundian version, the subtext is the participation of a commoner in a celebration among the nobility. There is also a version about sexual overtones: a tree around which animals dance symbolizes a phallus, and dancing is a euphemism for an orgy. It is most clearly manifested in the version common among Kazhuns. Moreover, a child joins the dance, which hints at the next act of pedophilia. The Burgundian version is melodically a parody of the Catholic sequence Dies irae and ends with the Latin word "Miserere"

Wow! I've never even heard of this before yet my soul remembers it. Strangely emotional experience.

"and so we killed the wolf the fox and the hare and now we're only screwed up by pigs, goats, snakes that we 'elect' and eat three times as much"

That's wicked good

Como me encanta esta canción y su simbolismo

Goes quite hard

C’est dingue

The fox, the wolf and the rabbit seem like an alias to refer to some people the listeners would instantly know and recognize and empathize with "those who're slaving away". Who were they? What's the actual meaning behind this song?

J' aime bien !!!!

Very beautiful, thank you

Magnifique ✨️🙏

This slap hard

Très sympa !

Sounds great!

0:18 - What is this painting? It's quite beautiful.

Fascinating

Merci

I want to hypnotically dance to this in the woods... what a joy.

J’ai vu le loup, le renard, le lièvre 😢

Occitanie!!

Thank you. Cyre

As a french speaker, i could kinda understand it!

Il existe une balade canadienne des années 70, qui est pareille à cette chanson médiévale 😂😂😂😂 La chanson : M'en revenant de Sainte-Hélène 🇨🇦🦆🍁

Suggestion pour une prochaine vidéo de chant occitan. Un de Joseph Canteloube sur l'Auvergne! ❤

"Ganhar", "lebre" and "dançar" are also words in Portuguese with the same meaning.

Phenomenal

Any chance of you uploading this on spotify? Couldn't find this specific version on there

Sounds like a version of "Le loup le renard et la belette ". :)

I'm from France and I understand everything !!

Lol we learned a version of this in elementary school in Quebec. The tune was pretty different, but it was definitely about the same subject.

Quel banger

Bella 😍😍😍

Nice. Speciel. Dialekt ok butnice. Wonderfull bless ❤❤❤❤

Honestly I think the version that translates the "nos i fotem" part as "there is nothing left" is more interesting as it is important for the dual nature of the song. Either there is nothing left because the wolf ate the cattle, the fox ate the chickens, and the hare ate the crops or, they are metaphors for the powerful groups in medieval France. The fact that the dangerous wolf, the cunning fox and the outwardly humble hare line up well with the three Estates suggests that there is nothing left because between the aristocracy's protection rackets, the merchant's profiteering, and the clergy's tithes the common people could barely scrape by. In short, the meaning of "I saw the wolf" is that the singer has discovered that the reason there is nothing left is because parasites stole it all and are living well off their ill gotten gains. Whether the parasites are animals or humans is up to the listener to decide. Edit: I was wrong. the literal translation is "We put it all up our butts" with the idiomatic equivalent being "we pissed it away" that is to say they wasted an entire years income in one month. welp, the first person plural kind of throws everything I said out the window. what do you all make of it?

Very beautiful language, it's like a cross between italian and french sort of. Well, it shouldn't wonder me, since the language bordered italy and came in contact with speakers of italian dialects. I think North Occitans spoke a dialect much closer to French and the southern Occitans spoke dialects closer to catalan and italian

Occitania has a special place in my heart

j'adore 😃👏👏👏👏🐺🦊

The wolf is the nobles, the fox is the merchants and the hare is the church.

Jolly old times when the French pronounced all the letters..

this song is fire

Better than the average medieval German songs, change my mind.

Does anyone know what the violin-type instrument is? Has a very raw sound to it that I love.

Je suis surpris qu'ils utilisaient déjà une variante de "renard" et pas "goupil"

Acho muito bom as incríveis semelhanças que as línguas latinas tem entre si, escutar essa música sendo uma lusófona foi muito bom

🐺🐺🐺🐺 Je veux des soirées folklorique !!

De qui est le tableau au début de la vidéo ?

Ça vient de la chanson de renard, une histoire du 9e siècle qui dénonce comment les moines ont créé le capitalisme en s'accaparant les terres et en volant le produit du travail des paysans et des artisans.

idk the context,but loved and now i wanna know