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| CSM Number : 18 | |||
| Short name: | The Silkworms that Wove Veils | Alternative: | Silkworms weave veils |
| Incipit: | Por nos de dulta tirar | ||
| Refrain: | Por nos de dulta tirar/ praz a Santa Maria/ de seus miragres mostrar/ fremosos cada dia. | ||
| Summary of narrative | |||
| Setting: | Segovia | Protagonist(s): | Alfonso X and a female silk maker |
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A woman in Segovia kept silkworms. Some of them died. She vowed to give a length of silk for a veil to adorn the statue of the Virgin on the altar. The silkworms thrived, but the woman forgot her promise. On the feast of the Assumption of the Virgin, while she was praying before the statue, she remembered her vow. She rushed home and discovered that the silkworms had woven two veils. King Alfonso took the most beautiful veil to his chapel to be displayed on holy days. |
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| Metrical data | |||
| Stanza: | 7 4\' 7 4\' 7 6\' 7 6\' | Refrain: | 7 6\' 7 6\' |
| No. of Stanzas: | 9 | ||
| Rhyme scheme: | ABAB | cdcdabab | Zejel: | |
| MS locations: | |||
| T18, E18, To16 | |||
| Poncelet reference | |||
| None | |||
| Keywords | |||
| chapel (in castle), feast day, king, silk, silkworms, veil, heresy | |||
| Discography | |||
| Click HERE for a list of recordings of this poem | |||
| BITAGAP ID | |||
| 3735 | |||
| Bibliography | |||
| A Paleographic Edition of the Alfonsine Collection of Prose Miracles of the Virgin Chatham, James R. | |||
| Entre Ave y Eva: las mujeres de las Cantigas de Santa María. II. Las trabajadoras. III. Las Evas Fidalgo, Elvira | |||
| Saint and Simulacra: Images of the Virgin in the Cantigas de Santa María of Alfonso X of Castile (1252-1284) Jackson, Deirdre Elizabeth | |||
| A Note on King Alfonso’s Use of Popular Themes in his Cantigas Keller, John Esten | |||
| Folklore in the Cantigas of Alfonso el Sabio Keller, John Esten | |||
| A Feasible Source of the Denouements of the Exemplos in El Conde Lucanor Keller, John Esten | |||
| On the Morality of Berceo, Don Juan Manuel, and Juan Ruiz Keller, John Esten | |||
| The Miracle of the Divinely-Inspired Silkworms: Cantiga 18 of the Cantigas de Santa Maria Keller, John Esten | |||
| A Preliminary Bibliography of Medieval Galician-Portuguese Poetry in English Translation Longland, Jean R. | |||
| Literatura galega medieval. I. A história. II. Antoloxia de textos comentados (lírica e prosa) Pena, Xosé Ramón | |||
| Manual e Antoloxía da Literatura Galega Medieval Pena, Xosé Ramón | |||
| Tres ensayos sobre el arte en las Cantigas de Santa Maria de Alfonso el Sabio Sánchez Cantón, Francisco Javier | |||
| A Selected and Annotated Discography of Recordings of Music from the Middle Ages in Spain Tinnell, Roger D. | |||
| Cantigas de Santa Maria de Afonso X, O Sábio: aspectos culturais e literários Vaz Leão, Angela | |||