Jim

The root of all these, I suppose, is the "pastourelle" of Provencal troubadours. The "aisling" is, as you describe it, a politicised pastourelle. In some cases, in my view, the interpretation is often rather artificially made long after the song was written. So an aisling is a post-hoc, politicised pastourelle. Let's just call them PPP's for short!

On the song of interest: as the earlier thread shows, I made little progress on tracing it 10 years ago. I'll try again.

Regards