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| CSM Number : 184 | |||
| Short name: | The Baby who was Born through a Wound in his Mother’s Side | Alternative: | Miraculous birth of murdered woman's child |
| Incipit: | A Madre de Deus / tant’ á en si gran vertude | ||
| Refrain: | A Madre de Deus/ tant’ á en si gran vertude/ per que aos seus/ acorre e dá saude. | ||
| Summary of narrative | |||
| Setting: | the land of Santiago | Protagonist(s): | a pregnant woman |
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There was a woman who was often pregnant. She had no children, however, because all of them died soon after they were born. When she became pregnant again, she asked the Virgin to protect her. Her husband got into a brawl with some other men who wounded him in the chest. When the woman saw her husband mortally wounded, she threw herself on him and was struck in the side. She died instantly, but her baby survived and came out through the wound. The knife that killed his mother cut the baby’s cheek. The baby grew up and became a man devoted to the Virgin. She caused the scar on his cheek to be visible always as proof of the miracle. |
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| Metrical data | |||
| Stanza: | 15' 15' 15' 15' | Refrain: | 5 7' 5 7' |
| No. of Stanzas: | 7 | ||
| Rhyme scheme: | ABAB | cccb | Zejel: | Yes |
| MS locations: | |||
| T184, E184 | |||
| Poncelet reference | |||
| None | |||
| Keywords | |||
| brawl, caesarean, childbirth, children, knife, murder, pregnancy, scar, stabbing, wound | |||
| Discography | |||
| Click HERE for a list of recordings of this poem | |||
| BITAGAP ID | |||
| 3935 | |||
| Bibliography | |||
| Cancioneiriño de Compostela Filgueira Valverde, José | |||
| Afonso X e Galicia, e unha escolma de cantigas Filgueira Valverde, José | |||
| Compostela y los trovadores García-Sabell Tormo, Teresa | |||
| Afonso X e as Cantigas de Santa Maria localizadas en Galicia Negri, Manuel | |||
| Valor de la música de las Cantigas Ribera y Tarragó, Julián | |||
| The Virgin as Midwife: Verbalization and Visualization in Alfonso X’s Cantigas de Santa Maria Scarborough, Connie, L. | |||
| A Selected and Annotated Discography of Recordings of Music from the Middle Ages in Spain Tinnell, Roger D. | |||