Excerpt from Fond Adventures: Tales of the Youth of the World

It is a tale of love and lovers which they tell, saying that in the hill-country of Toulouse is to be found the walled city of Ventadorn with its castle and long church. Sir Simon was lord of it, a vavasour of good Count Raimon"s in the days before his fall. The city towered over two valleys, and the castle over it; there this old vavasour lived, and kept great state once upon a time, with men-at-arms for his walls, and minstrels, chamberlains, pages, and esquires to make cheer within doors. But the days had worsened: his wife was dead, his son Sir Bernart was in the service of King John of England - Landless they called that king, who tricked his father, and was tricked himself; now all that remained to Simon of Ventadorn were his two handsome daughters, Lady Saill and Lady Tibors.

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