Elias Cairels

I. - .A I K.

Elias Cairels si fo de Sarlat, d'un borc de Peiregorc, & era laboraire d'aur & d'argen, e deseignaire d'armas: e fetz se joglar & anet lonc temps per lo mon. Mal cantava e mal trobava, e mal violava e pieitz parlava; e ben escrivia motz e sons. En Romania estet lonc temps; e quant el s'en parti, si s'en tornet a Sarlat; e lai el moric.

II. - H.

Elias Cairels fo de Peiregors, e saup be letras e fo molt sotils en trobar & en tot quant el volc far ni dir. E serquet la major part de la terra habitada. E pel desdeing qu'el avia dels baros e del segle, no fo tant grazitz com la soa obra valia. (Chabaneau 50). 

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Ezra Pound, Troubadours Their Sorts and Conditions

Elias Cairels was of Sarlat; ill he sang, ill he composed, ill he played the fiddle and worse he spoke, but he was good at writing out words and tunes. And he was a long time wandering, and when he quitted it, he returned to Sarlat and died there.

REFERENCES

Chabaneau, Camille. Les Biographies des troubadours en langue provençale. Toulouse: Édouard Privat, 1885. In General Sources. The Cantos Project.

Pound, Ezra. Literary Essays. London: Faber, 1954. 98-99.