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| CSM Number : 72 | |||
| Short name: | The Blasphemer who was Struck Dead | Alternative: | Iurans per B.V. membra (manus, linguam, cet.) moritur |
| Incipit: | Quen diz mal da reĩa espirital | ||
| Refrain: | Quen diz mal da reĩa espirital/ log’ é tal que merec’ o fog’ infernal. | ||
| Summary of narrative | |||
| Setting: | unspecified | Protagonist(s): | a gambler |
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A man was drinking and gambling in a tavern. When he lost at dice, he started cursing God and he mocked the Virgin’s body. When he cursed the Virgin’s womb, God struck him dead. The gambler’s father heard the news. He encountered a dead man who told him that his son had died in mortal sin--not because he had cursed Christ, but because he had insulted the Virgin. The dead man told him that he would find his son’s body slit from top to bottom with his heart split in two. The father found his son exactly as described. |
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| Metrical data | |||
| Stanza: | 7 7 12 [7 5] | Refrain: | 11 [3 8] 11 [3 8] |
| No. of Stanzas: | 11 | ||
| Rhyme scheme: | AA | bba | Zejel: | |
| MS locations: | |||
| T72, E72, ToAppendix 13 | |||
| Poncelet reference | |||
| Accidit apud Cluniacum nuper, anno scilicet Dñi MCCXLVI (9) | |||
| Keywords | |||
| blasphemy, cursing, devils, gambling, ghost, heart | |||
| Discography | |||
| Click HERE for a list of recordings of this poem | |||
| Miracle | Collection | ||
| BITAGAP ID | |||
| 3789 | |||
| Bibliography | |||
| Cantigas de Santa Maria — El Cantar de los cantares — Sonetos — Coplas que hizo por la muerte de su padre D. Rodrigo Alfonso X el Sabio and others | |||
| Dos preconceitos de Afonso X, o Sábio Bagby Jr., Alberto I. | |||
| ’Alea jacta est’: at the gaming table with Alfonso the Learned Carpenter, Dwayne E. | |||
| Sources of the Cantigas of Alfonso el Sabio [AC] Dexter, Elise Forsythe | |||
| Sonic cursing and enjambement: sounding blasphemy in two songs of the Cantigas de Santa Maria Drummond, Henry T. | |||
| Las mujeres y los dados en la poesía de Alfonso X Fidalgo Francisco, Elvira | |||
| As festas do tempo nos cancioneiros galego-portugueses, lección inaugural do Curso Académico do ano 1978 Filgueira Valverde, José | |||
| La sociedad medieval española reflejada en la obra de Alfonso el Sabio González, Jr., Juan | |||
| A sátira na literatura medieval portuguesa (séculos XIII e XIV) Martins, Mário | |||
| Il fantasma della Cantiga de Santa María 72: modelli culturali e fonti letterarie Negri, Manuel | |||
| Questões de estructura estrófica nas Cantigas de Santa Maria: estructuras múltiplas, assimetrias e continuações inconsistentes Parkinson, Stephen | |||
| Alfonso X the Learned. Cantigas de Santa Maria. An Anthology Parkinson, Stephen | |||
| La composición de las Cantigas de Santa Maria: una estrategia métrico-melódica, una estrategia poética Rossell, Antoni | |||
| Las Cantigas del Rey Sabio Valera, Juan | |||
| ’Virgo Antiludens’: Xogos de azar, blasfémia e castigo nas Cantigas de Santa María de Afonso X o Sabio Ventura Ruiz, Joaquim | |||