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| CSM Number : 364 | |||
| Short name: | The Tower that Collapsed | Alternative: | Tower collapses on builders |
| Incipit: | Quen por serviço da Virgen | ||
| Refrain: | Quen por serviço da Virgen/ mete seu corp’ en ventura/ de tod’ ocajon o guarda/ ca é Sennor de mesura. | ||
| Summary of narrative | |||
| Setting: | Santa Maria do Porto | Protagonist(s): | the builders of the Church of Santa Maria do Porto |
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Some builders were working diligently to build the Church of Santa Maria do Porto. They were preparing to lay the stone foundation and had dug a very deep trench. It was so deep that it looked as if anyone who fell into it would by killed instantly. Thirty workmen were in the bottom of the pit, digging under the corner of a tower, when the structure collapsed on top of them. They did not despair, however, because the Virgin, whose church they were building, protected them from harm. [lacuna of four lines] They worked even more zealously after that and completed the church in a short time. It was beautiful and strong and people said there was no other like it in all of Extremadura. |
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| Metrical data | |||
| Stanza: | 15' 15' 15' 15' | Refrain: | 15' 15' |
| No. of Stanzas: | 7 | ||
| Rhyme scheme: | AA | bbba | Zejel: | Yes |
| MS locations: | |||
| E364 | |||
| Poncelet reference | |||
| None | |||
| Keywords | |||
| accident, builders, church (construction of) , dig, ditch, invincibility , tower (collapse of) | |||
| Discography | |||
| Click HERE for a list of recordings of this poem | |||
| BITAGAP ID | |||
| 4116 | |||
| Bibliography | |||
| A Forma Mesquite in Formam Ecclesiae: Toledo, Between Rodrigo and Ibn Hud, Dodds, Jerilynn D. | |||
| Los orígenes del culto de Santa María del Puerto, 1255-1500 Hisan, Pedro (pseud.) [ = Sancho de Sopranís, Hipólito] | |||
| Alfonso X y las Cantigas a Santa Maria Martínez Alfonso, Manuel | |||
| Doing lines: refrains and copyists in the Cantigas de Santa Maria Parkinson, Stephen | |||
| Tres ensayos sobre el arte en las Cantigas de Santa Maria de Alfonso el Sabio Sánchez Cantón, Francisco Javier | |||
| Historia del Puerto de Santa María Sancho Mayi [Sopranís], Hipólito | |||
| A Selected and Annotated Discography of Recordings of Music from the Middle Ages in Spain Tinnell, Roger D. | |||
| “La mezquita de al-Qanatir y el sanctuario de Alfonso el Sabio en el Puerto de Santa María,” Torres Balbas, Leopoldo | |||