[726] See Antolín López Peláez, _Poesías Inéditas del P. Feijoo ...
seguidas de las poesías gallegas ‘Dialogo de 24 Rusticos’ y ‘O Tio
Marcos da Portela’ por el P. Sarmiento_, Tuy, 1901.
[727] Cf. A. Ribeiro dos Santos, _Obras_ (MS.), vol. xix, f. 21:
_Galicia ... muito affeita desde alta antiguidade ao exercicio de
trovas e cantares._
[728] Or Rosalía Castro de (or y) Murguía. Her husband, DON MANUEL
DE MURGUÍA (born in 1833), author of _Los Precursores_ (1886),
_Diccionario de Escritores Gallegos_ (1862), and other works devoted to
the study of Galicia, its ethnology and history, is still alive.
[729] O winds of my country blowing softly together, Winds, winds,
gentle winds, O carry me thither! (1909 ed., pp. 95-8).
[730] _Follas Novas: Duas palabras d’a autora_, 1910 ed., p. 31.
[731] _Follas Novas_ (1910 ed.), p. 254.
[732] A sixth edition appeared in 1909, whereas most books of Galician
verse cling to the obscurity of their first edition or at best obtain a
second in the hospitable _Biblioteca Gallega_.
[733] _Esfolhada_ or _desfolla_: gathering to husk the maize.
[734] _Fiada_, _fiandon_: a rustic _tertulia_ (evening party) of women
to spin.
[735] _Fuliada_, _afuliada_, _folion_.
[736] In Tras-os-Montes potatoes are called _castanholas_, i. e. large
chestnuts, which recalls the fact that Andrea Navagero, eating potatoes
for the first time at Seville in 1526, considered them to taste like
chestnuts. In parts of Galicia they are called _castañas d’a terra_.
[737] _Soaces_, p. 156. The _espadela_ is the task of braking flax.
[738] Perhaps the only poem that might have been written by Pondal is
that on p. 177 (the first verse) of Rosalía de Castro’s _Follas Novas_
(1910 ed.).
[739] _Queixumes dos Pinos_ (1886), p. 101.
[740] For an earlier example of the same kind of tercets (_abacdcefe_)
see R. de Castro, _Follas Novas_, 1910 ed., p. 158.
[741] The very word _morriña_ is more common (in the sense of
_saudade_) at Madrid than in Galicia.
[742] _Salayos_, p. 65.
[743] Also _flepa_, _folepa_, _folepiña_, Portuguese
_folheca_--_floco_, _froco_, _copo_ (= ‘flake’).
[744] The passage (_Folerpas_, p. 182) in which a peasant, refusing
alms to an old woman, bids her beg of the rich, is scarcely drawn from
life.
[745] Cf. _Cancionero_, i. 50: _Cantade, nenas, cantade_; G. Ferreiro,
_Chorimas_, p. 76, _as cantiguiñas das moças_; R. de Castro, _Cant.
Gall._, p. 102, _As meniñas cantan, cantan_. Cf. also E. Pardo Bazán,
_De mi tierra_ (1888), p. 122: _las_ [_coplas_] _gallegas de las cuales
buena parte debe ser obra de hembras_.
[746] _Memorias para la historia de la poesía y poetas españoles_
(_Obras Postumas_, vol. i, Madrid, 1775, p. 238, § 538).
[747] See _C. da Ajuda_, ed. C. Michaëlis de Vasconcellos (1904), ii.
902.
[748] Cf. R. de Castro, _Cantares Gallegos_ (1909 ed.), p. 18
(_mantelo_, _refaixo_), p. 19 (_mar_, _río_), pp. 20-1 (_e-a_), p. 27
(_terras_, _vilas_), p. 29 (_pousaban_, _vivían_), p. 85 (_vestira_,
_calzara_); _Follas Novas_ (1910 ed.), p. 229 (_a-e_); _Aires d’a miña
terra_ (ed. 1911). p. 35 (_quería_, _pensaba_), p. 139 (_i-a_), p. 249
(_á miles_, _á centos_); _Chorimas_, p. 36 (_estrevidos_, _ousados_);
A. Camino, _Poesías Gallegas_, p. 19: _Qué noite aquela en que eu a vin
gemindo!_ (_chorar!_).
[749] Quatrains of which lines 2 and 4 are in rhyme or assonance, e.g.
_Ruliña que vas volando Sin facer caso á ninguen, Vai e dille á aquela
nena Que sempre a quixen ben_. _Tercetos_ are rarer (_aba_). Sometimes
the _quadra_ is really a tercet with line 1 repeated (_aaba_).
[750] D. Aurelio Ribalta is author in verse of _Os meus votos_ (1903)
and _Libro de Konsagrazión_ (1910); D. Manuel Lugris of _Soidades_
(1894), _Noitebras_ (1910); Snr. Pérez Placer of _Cantares Gallegos_
(1891). D. FLORENCIO VAAMONDE (born in 1860), author of a _Resume
da Historia de Galicia_ (1898), also wrote, in verse, _Os Calaicos_
(1894). Recently Galician literature has found a keen historian in D.
EUGENIO CARRÉ ALDAO, whose _Literatura Gallega_ (2nd ed., 1911) also
contains an anthology.