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| CSM Number : 147 | ||||
| Short name: | The Talking Sheep | |||
| Incipit: | A madre do que a bestia de Balaam falar fez | |||
| Refrain: | A madre do que a bestia de Balaam falar fez/ ar fez pois ũa ovella ela falar ũa vez. | |||
| Summary of narrative | ||||
| Setting: | unspecified (mention of Rocamadour) | Protagonist(s): | a poor old woman | |
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A poor old woman, devoted to the Virgin, bought a sheep. She entrusted it to a shepherd for safekeeping. At shearing time she went to collect the wool, but the shepherd, who had hidden the sheep, told her that a wolf had eaten it. The woman realised he was lying and asked the Virgin to restore her sheep. The sheep cried out: “Here I am.” The woman sheared it and took the fleece to Rocamadour. |
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| Metrical data | ||||
| Stanza: | 7’ 7 7’ 7 15 [7’ 7] 15 [7’ 7] | Refrain: | 15 [7’ 7] 15 [7’ 7] | |
| No. of Stanzas: | 5 | |||
| Rhyme scheme: | AA | bcbcca | Zejel: | ||
| MS locations: | ||||
| T147, E147 | ||||
| Poncelet reference | ||||
| (2002) | ||||
| Keywords | ||||
| Balaam, false accusation, pilgrimage, poverty, sheep, shepherd, wool | ||||
| Discography | ||||
| Click HERE for a list of recordings of this poem | ||||
| Miracle | Collection | |||
| Talking sheep (Rocamadour) | Ripoll (Rivipullensis 193) |
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| BITAGAP ID | ||||
| 3899 | ||||
| Bibliography | ||||
| Doctrina teológica y leyendas pías en las Cantigas de Santa Maria de Alfonso X, el Sabio Alcalá, Ángel | ||||
| Cantigas de Santa Maria do rei don Alfonso Alfonso X , o Sábio | ||||
| Un recull de miracles de Santa Maria, procedent de Ripoll, i les Cantigues d’Alfons el Savi Baraut i Obiols, Cebrià | ||||
| The Oxford Book of Portuguese Verse Bell, Aubrey F. G. | ||||
| Las Cantigas de Santa Maria Filgueira Valverde, José | ||||
| Les Miracles de Notre Dame de Roc Amadour au XIIe siècle. Texte et traduction d’aprés les manuscrits de la Bibliothèque Nationale Fournier d’Albe, Edmond | ||||
| Paralelismo discursivo de los delitos de hurto y robo en las Siete Partidas y Las Cantigas de Santa Maria’ Igkesias, Yolanda, and David Navarro | ||||
| Itinéraire espagnol du conte médiéval (VIIIs-XVs) Marsan, Rameline E. | ||||
| O Livro dos Milagres da Bem-aventurada Virgem Maria Martins, Mário | ||||
| Alfonso X the Learned. Cantigas de Santa Maria. An Anthology Parkinson, Stephen | ||||
| Aberturas e finais: rubricas, refrães, estrofes iniciais e estrofes terminais nas Cantigas de Santa Maria Parkinson, Stephen | ||||
| Antologia da poesia portuguesa, vol. I: séculos XII-XVI Pinheiro Torres, Alexandre | ||||
| Recordings of Las [sic] Cantigas de Santa Maria Contained in the Facsimile Edition Published by Edilán (Madrid 1979) Tinnell, Roger D. | ||||