Espringale is Old French for a medieval jumping-dance.
It is distinct from the Old French ''
carol,'' a
round dance. It may correlate to the frequently mentioned ''Hupfauff'', ''Springdantz'', and
saltarello
The ''saltarello'' is a musical dance originally from Italy. The first mention of it is in Add MS 29987, a late-fourteenth- or early fifteenth-century manuscript of Tuscan origin, now in the British Library. It was usually played in a fast tr ...
types of dances of the late Middle Ages.
The term is found in the c.1227 ''Roman de la violette'' by
Montreuil and the 1389 ''Songe du viell pèlerin'' by
Mézières.
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Medieval dance
French dances