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| CSM Number : 172 | |||
| Short name: | The Merchant Bound for Acre who Survived a Storm | Alternative: | Merchants bound for Acre survive storm (Salas) |
| Incipit: | A Madre de Jesu-Cristo/ que ceos, terras e mares/ fez | ||
| Refrain: | A Madre de Jesu-Cristo/ que ceos, terras e mares/ fez, poder á d’ as tormentas/ toller en todos logares. | ||
| Summary of narrative | |||
| Setting: | on the way to Acre; also Salas and Puy | Protagonist(s): | a merchant |
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A merchant, bound for Acre, loaded his ship with merchandise. The ship was battered by a storm; the mast was broken and the sails were torn. The merchant vowed to make a pilgrimage to Salas if he were to arrive safely in port. He promised to make a beautiful offering. The Virgin calmed the storm and the mariners repaired the mast and commended themselves to Holy Mary of Salas. The wind blew so favourably that they arrived in Acre the next morning. They sold their merchandise and then returned to their land. Then they went on pilgrimage to Puy and to Salas. At Salas, the merchant gave a crystal cross to the Virgin. |
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| Metrical data | |||
| Stanza: | 15' 15' 15' 15' | Refrain: | 15' 15' |
| No. of Stanzas: | 6 | ||
| Rhyme scheme: | AA | bbba | Zejel: | Yes |
| MS locations: | |||
| T172, E172 | |||
| Poncelet reference | |||
| None | |||
| Keywords | |||
| cross, mast, merchant, minstrel, pilgrimage, shipwreck, storm, vow, crystal | |||
| Discography | |||
| Click HERE for a list of recordings of this poem | |||
| BITAGAP ID | |||
| 3923 | |||
| Bibliography | |||
| Santa María de Salas en el Siglo XIII. Estudio sobre algunas Cantigas de Alfonso el Sabio Aguado Bleye, Pedro | |||
| Un cantar que cantassen os jograres (CSM 172, 33): Las formas de la ’performance’ en las Cantigas de Santa Maria Disalvo, Santiago and Germán Rossi | |||
| Los poetas del Guadiana a Alfonso el Sabio Gonzalez Lara, José, director de publicación | |||
| Alfonso X el Sabio, un rey ’cantigueiro’ Llorens Cistero, José María | |||
| Cantigas de Santa Maria de Alfonso X el Sabio, rey de Castilla López Serrano, Matilde | |||
| Poesía juglaresca y juglares: aspectos de la historia literaria y cultural de España Menéndez Pidal, Ramón | |||