Morten St George Theory

[Morten St. George]

e l'almugaver, quel veu venir tot abrival vers ell, lexal se acostar, e trames li la scona als pits dels cavall, si que li'n mes be dos palms entre los pits e la espalla;

From Choix de chroniques et mémoires sur l'histoire, Volume 3
Bad spelling doesn't help the translation of this passage. The word is not "abrival" in the original text but "abrivat". Means spontaneous, intrepid.

I translate it as:
and the Knight, who sees them all coming headfast towards him, (prepares his lance?), and puts his heels into the sides of his horse, without there being more than two handspans between his breastplate and the sword;

April, in modern Catalan, is Abril. We've been over this elsewhere, the etymology doesn't allow us to fix a location, most Romance languages (actually, most European languages - even Basque!) use a variant upon the original Latin Aprīlis.

Your software would not allow me to respond to your post. I was taken to a message saying I was unauthorized to do so, and I thought I had been banned from this discussion group. That would not be something new for me: a few years ago I was banned from a Yahoo! Group called the Nostradamus Research Group. But your software did allow me to respond to someone else.

Strange, your session must have timed out or something. You haven't broken any rules or incurred any warnings so no ban of any type exists for you.

OK. I'll concede on that.