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| CSM Number : 318 | |||
| Short name: | The Priest who Stole Silver from a Cross | Alternative: | Priest steals silver from a cross |
| Incipit: | Quen a Deus e a sa Madre/ escarnno fazer quiser | ||
| Refrain: | Quen a Deus e a sa Madre/ escarnno fazer quiser/ muito ser gran dereito/ se ll’ ende pois mal vẽer. | ||
| Summary of narrative | |||
| Setting: | Hita in Toledo | Protagonist(s): | a wicked priest |
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In the city of Hita in the kingdom of Toledo, there was a priest who spoke fine words, but was really an evil thief. In his church there was a large silver cross. He stole it, scraped off the silver, and gave the metal to a woman of his. The next day, he showed the cross to the people. He wept and cursed the one who had stolen the silver. He asked God to avenge the deed and to strike the person blind. He made everyone say the Our Father. When they had recited it, the Virgin blinded him. No medicine from Montpellier could help him. In addition, she made his nose grow so big that it covered his mouth and stretched out to his ears. He could not eat or drink unless he lifted that enormous nose. A thousand times a day he wished that he were dead. The Virgin disfigured him so that people who saw him would avoid doing wrong. |
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| Metrical data | |||
| Stanza: | 15 15 15 15 | Refrain: | 15 15 |
| No. of Stanzas: | 10 | ||
| Rhyme scheme: | AA | bbba | Zejel: | Yes |
| MS locations: | |||
| F48, E318 | |||
| Poncelet reference | |||
| None | |||
| Keywords | |||
| blindness, cross, cursing, face, nose, priest , silver, thief/ thieves | |||
| Discography | |||
| Click HERE for a list of recordings of this poem | |||
| BITAGAP ID | |||
| 4072 | |||
| Bibliography | |||
| Dos preconceitos de Afonso X, o Sábio Bagby Jr., Alberto I. | |||
| Los clérigos, las ’cantigas’ y las ’Siete Partidas’ Cash, Annette Grant | |||
| Paralelismo discursivo de los delitos de hurto y robo en las Siete Partidas y Las Cantigas de Santa Maria’ Igkesias, Yolanda, and David Navarro | |||
| Milagres e romarias portuguesas nas Cantigas de Santa Maria Martins, Mário | |||
| Doing lines: refrains and copyists in the Cantigas de Santa Maria Parkinson, Stephen | |||