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| CSM Number : 317 | |||
| Short name: | The Squire who Assaulted a Girl | Alternative: | Squire assaults girl |
| Incipit: | Mal s’ á end’ achar | ||
| Refrain: | Mal s’ á end’ achar/ quen quiser desonrar Santa Maria. | ||
| Summary of narrative | |||
| Setting: | the hermitage of Holy Mary of the Mountain in Galicia | Protagonist(s): | a squire |
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On the Virgin’s feast day in the middle of August, a great crowd of people went on pilgrimage to the hermitage of Holy Mary of the Mountain in Galicia. A squire arrived and saw a girl he fancied. He tried to force himself on her, but she spurned his advances. He seized her and tried to rape her, but she fled into the church. The people came running when they heard her cries and she asked them to protect her from the squire. They quickly closed the doors of the church and prayed to the Virgin. The squire was livid with rage and taunted the girl, saying that she would not get away. Then he raised his foot to kick the doors down. However, Christ broke his leg and made him mute. He was a mad, maimed beggar for the rest of his life. The only words he could say were “Holy Mary.” |
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| Metrical data | |||
| Stanza: | 11 11 5 10' | Refrain: | 5 10' |
| No. of Stanzas: | 13 | ||
| Rhyme scheme: | AB | cccb | Zejel: | Yes |
| MS locations: | |||
| F92, E317, To84 | |||
| Poncelet reference | |||
| None | |||
| Keywords | |||
| Assumption (feast of), beggars, blasphemy, entrance (barred), feast day, legs (injured or swollen), madness, mute, pilgrimage, rape, squire, vigil | |||
| Discography | |||
| Click HERE for a list of recordings of this poem | |||
| BITAGAP ID | |||
| 3883 | |||
| Bibliography | |||
| Dos preconceitos de Afonso X, o Sábio Bagby Jr., Alberto I. | |||
| Contributo allo studio della letteratura miracolistica Bertolucci Pizzorusso, Valeria | |||
| Poesía de santuarios Filgueira Valverde, José | |||
| A inserción do ’verbo antigo’ na literatura medieval Filgueira Valverde, José | |||
| Afonso X e Galicia, e unha escolma de cantigas Filgueira Valverde, José | |||
| A estrutura métrico-rimática da cantiga 100 das Cantigas de Santa Maria Montero Santalha, José-Martinho | |||
| Proposta Galiza Montero Santalha, José-Martinho | |||
| A estructura métrica de algunas das Cantigas de Santa Maria Montero Santalha, José-Martinho | |||
| Afonso X e as Cantigas de Santa Maria localizadas en Galicia Negri, Manuel | |||
| Questões de estructura estrófica nas Cantigas de Santa Maria: estructuras múltiplas, assimetrias e continuações inconsistentes Parkinson, Stephen | |||