🏰 Old Occitan | 13th Century What is this text? The Romance of Flamenca, a 13th-century poem in Old Occitan (also called Old Provençal in older scholarship), the medieval language of southern France. The manuscript survives at the Municipal Library of Carcassonne (a fortified city in southern France). Vocabulary drawn from Indiana University’s digitized Flamenca text (Paul Meyer, 1901 transcription). Pronunciation guided by TrobEu’s reconstruction of Old Occitan phonology (trob-eu.net). Dialogue was assembled from these sources for this scene. What you’re seeing: A spoken reconstruction using Flamenca manuscript words rearranged into new dialogue. Set in the County of Toulouse, the heart of Occitan-speaking territory. Full dialogue (Old Occitan): “Lo cors mi dis qu’ieu ai desirat trop lonc temps. Mais non sabra jamais bon a mon cor.” Modern Occitan: “Mos cors me ditz trop longamen ai desirat. Mas saurà pas jamai de ben per mon còr.” English: “My heart tells me I have desired too...