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Re: Ah si mon moine voilait danser

From:Peter Bleackley <peter.bleackley@...>
Date:Tuesday, June 29, 2004, 8:25
Staving David Peterson:
>How medieval? Could it be a reference to Chaucer's "Miller's Tale"? >After all, usually if you have the words "medieval", "song", "monk", >"woman" all in the same sentence, the theme is ribaldry.
The Mediaeval Baebes attribute it as "Traditional, French". I haven't been able to find a more precise date for it, and some sources seem to think that it's later and Qebecois. However, the subject matter does seem to fit in with mediaeval ribaldry, so I was wondering if "moulin" might mean something rude in the context. Pete