Galicia, the Switzerland of Spain

by Annette M. B. Meakin

[197] See Prologue to her Follas Novas, by Emilio Castelar.

[198] It is known in Madrid by the name morrinha Gallega.

[199] See J. V. Failde, Rosalia Castro, Madrid, 1906.

[200] “Nos somos arpa de soyo duas cordas, a’ imaẍinacion y o’ sentimiento.”

[201] “Tienen singularísimo valor los diminutivos Gallegas” (Marquis de Figueroa).

[202] See his De la Poesía Gallega, 1889.

[203] “Por Galicia penetró el gusto provenzal en Castille hasta principios del siglo xiii.” See Theophile Braga, Trovadores Galaice-portugueses.

[204] Pastor Dias was one of these; though a Gallegan by birth and in temperament, he only wrote one poem in the Gallegan dialect. See Marquis de Figueroa (Op. cit.), p. 41.

[205] Emilia Pardo Bazán, quoted by Marquis de Figueroa.

[206] Op. cit.