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Old French citations of seignor

Noun

  • c. 1180, Chrétien de Troyes, Lancelot ou le Chevalier de la charrette:
    A lor seignor gaires n’antendent
    Ne les serors ne li cinc frere
    They didn't listen to their father
    Neither the sisters nor the five brothers
  • c. 12th or 13th Century, Jean Bodel, De Haimet et de Barat:
    Dïent « Dame, ou est vo barons ? »
    Celle ne connut les larrons :
    « Seignor », fist-elle, « il est el bos »
    « Pour fair amener des fagoz »
    They said « Dear lady, where is your husband? »
    She didn't know these robbers
    « My Lords » said she « he is in the woods »
    « To bring back some logs ».
  • c. 1150, Thomas d'Angleterre, Le Roman de Tristan, Champion Classiques edition, →ISBN, page 182, lines 2257–8:
    Seignurs, cest cunte est mult divers,
    e pur ço l'uni par mes vers
    Sirs, this story is very diverse,
    and for this, I try to bring it together with my verses
  • 10th century, Turold, La Chanson de Roland, page XIII :
    « Seignurs barons, » dist li emperere Carles
    « Sir barons, » said the emperor Charles
  • c. 1250, Marie de France, Equitan, page 50 :
    Dedenz le chastel mun seignur sujurnez
    In the castle in which my lord stays
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