trouvere

He is a poet in the primitive sense of the word, or, as he styled himself in one of his books, a "trouvère."

Expansion, however, so difficult to some writers, was never in the least a stumbling-block to the trouvère.

There were, perhaps, trouvère-knights in the garrisons of Edessa or of Jôf who could have told us all about it.

Rutebœuf, a noted French trouvère of the thirteenth century, gives us a quaint picture of a scene frequently witnessed in his day.

He supported himself, like a trouvère, by his proficiency in verse.