ABSTRACT
There had been a great war that involved the barons of Limousin and Sir Bertran de Bom, as you have heard elsewhere. And it happened that all those barons made peace with the count without conferring with Sir Bertran. He was as sad and mournful over this as he could ever possibly be, and he complained about it to the courtly Count Geoffrey, with whom he shared the name “Rassa,” and who had supported them in that war, and then they went and made peace without conferring with the count. And so he wrote a sirventes about his recriminations that begins: Rassa, they’ve put themselves first…
