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| CSM Number : 19 | |||
| Short name: | The Three Knights | Alternative: | The Three Soldiers |
| Incipit: | Gran sandece faz quen se por mal filla | ||
| Refrain: | Gran sandece faz quen se por mal filla/ cona que de Deus é Madre e Filla. | ||
| Summary of narrative | |||
| Setting: | unspecified | Protagonist(s): | three men |
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Three men chased an enemy of theirs into a church and locked him in. They then hacked him to death in front of the altar. They tried to leave the church, but could not. They could not grasp their weapons and their bodies became inflamed. They begged the Virgin for mercy, repented of their sins, and were cured. They confessed to the archbishop who told them to go into exile. The swords with which they had killed the man were made into girdles, which they wore as penance as they wandered through Sicily. |
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| Metrical data | |||
| Stanza: | 11\' 11\' 11\' 11\' | Refrain: | 10\' 10\' |
| No. of Stanzas: | 8 | ||
| Rhyme scheme: | AA | bbba | Zejel: | Yes |
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| T19, E19, To18 | |||
| Poncelet reference | |||
| Cum odio haberent quendam virum et quaererent illum (289) | |||
| Keywords | |||
| altar, bishop, imprisonment, inflammation, murder, penance, archbishop, confession (see also repentance), exile , exit (barred), sanctuary (right of), sword, vengeance (divine) | |||
| Discography | |||
| Click HERE for a list of recordings of this poem | |||
| Miracle | Collection | ||
| The Three Soldiers | Thott (Copenhagen, Royal Library, MS Thott 128) |
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| The Three Soldiers | Phillips (Chicago, University of Chicago, Phillipps MS 25142) |
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| The Three Soldiers | Gil de Zamora (Madrid, Biblioteca Nacional, MS 9503) |
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| The Three Soldiers | BL Mariale 3 (London, BL, Additional MS 35112, ff. 21-80; 90-94) |
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| The Three Soldiers | Lisbon Mariale (Lisbon, B.N., MS Alcobacense 149) |
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| The Three Soldiers | Gonzalo de Berceo |
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| The Three Soldiers | Madrid Mariale (Madrid, B.N., MS 110) |
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| The Three Soldiers | William of Malmesbury |
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| The Three Soldiers | BL Mariale 2 (London, BL, Arundel 346, ff. 60-73) |
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| Three Knights | Mariale Magnum (Paris Bibliothèque Nationale lat 3177) |
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| Three Knights | Johannes Herolt |
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| Three Knights | Anglo-Norman Miracles of the Virgin (London, BL, Royal 20 B XIV, fols 102v-169) |
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| Three Knights | Paris Mariale 1 (Paris Bibliothèque Nationale 14463) |
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| Three Knights | BL Mariale 1 (Cotton Cleopatra C.x., ff. 101-144v) |
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| BITAGAP ID | |||
| 3736 | |||
| Bibliography | |||
| Doctrina teológica y leyendas pías en las Cantigas de Santa Maria de Alfonso X, el Sabio Alcalá, Ángel | |||
| A Paleographic Edition of the Alfonsine Collection of Prose Miracles of the Virgin Chatham, James R. | |||
| Sources of the Cantigas of Alfonso el Sabio [AC] Dexter, Elise Forsythe | |||
| Cincuenta leyendas por Gil de Zamora, combinadas con las Cantigas de Alfonso el Sabio Fita, Fidel | |||
| Los poetas del Guadiana a Alfonso el Sabio Gonzalez Lara, José, director de publicación | |||
| Daily Living as Presented in the Canticles of Alfonso the Learned Keller, John Esten | |||
| A Feasible Source of the Denouements of the Exemplos in El Conde Lucanor Keller, John Esten | |||
| Aberturas e finais: rubricas, refrães, estrofes iniciais e estrofes terminais nas Cantigas de Santa Maria Parkinson, Stephen | |||
| Cantigas de Santa Maria de Afonso X, O Sábio: aspectos culturais e literários Vaz Leão, Angela | |||