> And of course, there's the CD-ROM transcription of the Alfonso MS that
> I've seen talking about lately, and which I am agonizingly slowly
> beginning to try to translate. Anyone here know anything much about 13th
> century Spanish? There are some verb forms (and a few roots) that have
> me completely stumped so far; they're nothing like anything I can find
> in my modern Spanish, ancient French, or Latin dictionaries...

Did you try to chase down some musicologists? They have done a lot of
work with the Cantigas. Are you sure it's not Gallician?

-- gb

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