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CSM Number : 22 | |||
Short name: | The Wounded Farmer | Alternative: | Farmer's wounds are healed (Rocamadour) |
Incipit: | Mui gran poder á a Madre de Deus | ||
Refrain: | Mui gran poder á a Madre de Deus/ de defender e ampara-los seus. | ||
Summary of narrative | |||
Setting: | Armenteira and Rocamadour | Protagonist(s): | a farmer named Matthew |
A farmer, Matthew, was threshing millet in Armenteira. A knight, who had quarrelled with Matthew’s lord, attacked him. Stabbed by lances, Matthew called on the Virgin. The lances could not pierce him. When struck by a javelin, he remained unharmed. His attackers acknowledged the miracle, begged his pardon and repented. The farmer went on pilgrimage to Rocamadour. |
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Metrical data | |||
Stanza: | 10 10 10 10 | Refrain: | 10 10 |
No. of Stanzas: | 7 | ||
Rhyme scheme: | AA | bbba | Zejel: | |
MS locations: | |||
T22, E22, To22 | |||
Poncelet reference | |||
None | |||
Keywords | |||
conversion, farmer, invincibility , javelin, knight, lance, millet, murder, pardon, pilgrimage, threshing, vassal (of lord) | |||
Discography | |||
Click HERE for a list of recordings of this poem | |||
BITAGAP ID | |||
3739 | |||
Bibliography | |||
The Jew in the Cántigas of Alfonso X, el Sabio Bagby, Albert | |||
Mecanismos de envolvimento da instância autoral nas Cantigas de Santa Maria Bittencourt, Vanda de Oliveira | |||
A Paleographic Edition of the Alfonsine Collection of Prose Miracles of the Virgin Chatham, James R. | |||
Afonso X e Galicia, e unha escolma de cantigas Filgueira Valverde, José | |||
A Feasible Source of the Denouements of the Exemplos in El Conde Lucanor Keller, John Esten | |||
Some Remarks on Visualization in the Cantigas de Santa Maria Keller, John Esten, and Charles L. Nelson | |||
Afonso X e as Cantigas de Santa Maria localizadas en Galicia Negri, Manuel | |||
Alfonso X, el rey sabio ¿tolerante con la minoría judía? Una lectura emblemática de las Cantigas de Santa Maria Roitman, Gisela | |||
Mother of God. A History of the Virgin Mary Rubin, MIri | |||
Historia de la literatura gallega. Varela Jácome, Benito |