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| CSM Number : 52 | ||||
| Short name: | The Mountain Goats that Gave Milk to the Monks of Montserrat | |||
| Incipit: | Mui gran dereit’ é d’ as bestias obedecer | |||
| Refrain: | Mui gran dereit’ é d’ as bestias obedecer/ a Santa Maria, de que Deus quis nacer. | |||
| Summary of narrative | ||||
| Setting: | Montserrat | Protagonist(s): | the monks of Montserrat | |
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Every evening, some mountain goats climbed down the mountain at Montserrat and went to the church. The goats lined up at the church door to be milked. The monks milked the goats for four years. A novice stole a kid from the flock and ate it. The monks could never catch and milk the goats again. Pilgrims are told how the Virgin provided for the monks. |
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| Metrical data | ||||
| Stanza: | 10 10 12 10 | Refrain: | 12 12 | |
| No. of Stanzas: | 7 | |||
| Rhyme scheme: | AA | bbba | Zejel: | Yes | |
| MS locations: | ||||
| T52, E52, To66 | ||||
| Poncelet reference | ||||
| None | ||||
| Keywords | ||||
| goats, milk (of goats), monastery, monks, novice, provision (miraculous, of food or drink) | ||||
| Discography | ||||
| Click HERE for a list of recordings of this poem | ||||
| BITAGAP ID | ||||
| 3769 | ||||
| Bibliography | ||||
| El Còdex musical de Las Huelgas. Música a veus dels segles XIII-XIV Anglés, Higinio | ||||
| Hispanic Musical Culture from the 6th-14th Century Anglés, Higinio | ||||
| Les cantigues Montserratines del rei Alfonso el Savi i la seva importància musical Anglés, Higinio | ||||
| La fama del santuario de Salas en lo antiguo Arco, Ricardo del | ||||
| Les Cantigues d’Alfons el Savi i el primitiu Liber Miraculorum de Nostra Dona de Montserrat Baraut i Obiols, Cebrià | ||||
| Recensão: Sunyol (1922). ’Cantigues de Montserrat....’ Bohigas Balaguer, Pere | ||||
| Los endecasílabos de Alfonso X: Estudio sobre las Cantigas Hanssen, Friedrich | ||||
| Ortografía ’alfonsí’? Para a análise grafemática dos testemuños poéticos en galego da segunda metade do século XIII Monteagudo, Henrique | ||||
| Alfonso X the Learned. Cantigas de Santa Maria. An Anthology Parkinson, Stephen | ||||
| Text-music mismatches in the Cantigas de Santa Maria Parkinson, Stephen | ||||
| Cantigues de Montserrat del rei Anfós X, dit ’el savi’ Sunyol, Gregori Maria | ||||
| Cantigas de Santa Maria de Afonso X, O Sábio: aspectos culturais e literários Vaz Leão, Angela | ||||
| Les Cantigues de Montserrat d'Alfons el Savi Ventura, Joaquim | ||||