Note 37 — I 1185-1325
Reading edition
Any one who has heard peasants at a Stabat singing the hymn
Stabat Mater dolorosa Jussa crussa larimosa Du penebat Filius
realizes that the words for them have no meaning, but that they will long remember tune and rhythm. Compare, for the form, the Latin hymn to the Virgin by the Breton poet Adam de Saint Victor (†1177):
Salve Verbi sacra parens, Flos de spinis spinis carens, Flos spineti gloria.