Cantou il gatsu:
¡Cristu naciú!
Dixu il buey:
¿Agú?
Dixu la ubecha:
¡En Bilén!
Dixu la cabra:
¡Catsa, cascarra,
Que nació en Grenada!
Munthe, Folkpoesi från Asturien, III, No 24, cited by Pitrè in Archivio,
VIII, 141.
“Quando Christo nasceu, disse o gallo: Jesus-Christo é ná ... á ...
á ... do.” Leite de Vasconcellos, Tradições pop. de Portugal, p. 148, No
285 _b_.
241. Greek ballad, The Taking of Constantinople. There is a Bulgarian
version. A roasted cock crows, fried fish come to life: Sbornik of the
Ministry of Public Instruction, II, 82. In other ballads the same
incident is transferred to the downfall of Bulgaria: Kačanofskij, p.
235, No 116; Sbornik, II, 129, 2, and II, 131, 2. (W. W.)