A couple of nitpicky little points in addition to my previous post: flambeau (torch) is masculine, so Un flambeau, not Une. And at least in standard Parisian French, the second girl's name ends in "e", not "a" (the latter would be proper in much of southern France, but the carol is not in a southern dialect — not in the form I have anyway, though I have seen it referred to [in a Fireside Book maybe?] as a carol of Provence.) If anyone knows the whereabouts of a Provençal or Occitan version (not counting recent translations from the langue d'oïl) I'd love to see it!

Liland