Dalla fucina di Universo Cantigas (II): Considerazioni sul refran di «Punhei eu muit'en me quitar» di Fernan Garcia Esgaravunha (UC 226)

The cantiga de refrán «Punhei eu muit'en me quitar» by the Portuguese troubadour Fernan Garcia Esgaravunha (UC 226) belongs to a small group of Galician-Portuguese poems that contain explicit Gallo-Romance elements: the last two verses of the refrain are clearly written in a Gallo-Romance idiom, although there is no consensus among scholars whether it is Occitan or Old French. This article addresses the problem by broadening the analysis and showing how the refrain must actually be considered as trilingual, i.e. written in Galician-Portuguese, Occitan and Old French.