Portuguese literatureBell, Aubrey F. G. (Aubrey Fitz Gerald)
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Bell, Aubrey F. G. (Aubrey Fitz Gerald)
Portuguese literature -- History and criticism
[47] C. V. 242-51, 979; C. C. B. 159-71 (= C. A. 70-81, 402).
[48] C. V. 414-16, 824-5; C. A. 281.
[49] Meen di nho in the C. V. M. index. Thus he is scarcely even a name.
[50] Or Esquio (? = _esquilo_, ‘squirrel’).
[51] Or Corpancho (Broade) or Campancho (Broadacre); but the word
_carpancho_ (= basket) exists in the region of Santander (_La
Montaña_). There is a modern Peruvian poet Manuel Nicolás Corpancho
(1830-63).
[52] This is the most probable form of his name, although modern
critics have presented him with various others.
[53] M. Alfred Jeanroy (_Les Origines_, 2ᵉ ed., 1904, p. 320) compares
with this _bailada_ the fragments _Tuit cil qui sunt enamourat Vignent
dançar, li autre non_ and _N’en nostre compaignie ne soit nus S’il
n’est amans_, but even if there was direct imitation here, which
is doubtful, that would not affect the indigenous character of the
_cossantes_.
[54] Or, according to D. C. Michaëlis de Vasconcellos, Moogo (from
_monachus_). _Meogo_ (= _meio_) occurs in C. M. 65 and 161, _moogo_ (=
monk) in C. M. 75 and 149.
[55] C. V. 392-402, 424-30, 1158-9; C. A. 246-56. Chariño is buried at
Pontevedra, in the Franciscan convent which he founded.
[56] Cf. the modern _Ai lé lé lé, marinheiro vira á ré_ or _Ai lé lé lé
Ribamar e S. José_.
[57] For later reminiscences of the _pastorela_ see C. Michaëlis de
Vasconcellos, _João Lourenço da Cunha, a ‘Flor de Altura’ e a cantiga
Ay Donas por qué em tristura?_ (_Separata da Revista Lusitana_, vol.
xix) Porto (1916), pp. 14-15.
[58] See _supra_, p. 23.
[59] A modern Portuguese quatrain runs
Passarinho que cantaes
Nesse raminho de flores,
Cantae vos, chorarei eu:
Assim faz quem tem amores.
[60] By the margin of a river Went a maiden singing, ever Of love sang
she:
Up the stream the boats came gliding Gracefully. All along the
river-bent The fair maiden singing went Of love’s dream: Fair to see
the boats came gliding Up the stream.
[61] _Poetica_ (C. C. B., p. 3, ll. 50-1).
[62] It probably does not rhyme (_e morre_ or _corre_) purposely. D.
Carolina Michaëlis de Vasconcellos proposes _gracioso_ or _friolo_ (_A
Saudade Portuguesa_, Porto, 1914, pp. 84, 140).
[63] _España Sagrada_, xx. 211.
[64] C. A. M. V. ii. 928-36. Almeida Garrett had written in a general
sense: _os vestigios d’essa poesia indigena ainda duram_ (_Revista
Univ. Lisbonense_, vol. v (1846), p. 843).
[65] At Rebordainhos, in Tras-os-Montes, e.g. _Na ribeirinha ribeira
Naquella ribeira Anda lá um peixinho vivo (bravo) Naquella ribeira_.
Other examples of the _i-a_ sequence are _amigo_ (_amado_), _cosido_
(_assado_), _villa_ (_praça_), _ermida_ (_oraga_), _linda_ (_clara_),
_Abril_ (_Natal_), _ceitil_ (_real_). See J. Leite de Vasconcellos,
_Annuario para o estudo das tradições populares portuguezas_ (Porto,
1882), pp. 19-24. Cf. the modern Asturian song with its refrain _¡Ay
Juana cuerpo garrido, ay Juana cuerpo galano!_
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