Note 29 — Chapter II · Miracles Performed by the Virgin in Response to Prayer

As is so often the case with the writers of the Middle Ages, we cannot always take our poet too literally, for in this poem he says: “D’esto direi un miragre que ui” and only a few stanzas later in describing the acts of the mother he says: “A todos da capela fez sayr”. But doubtless since he was so closely related to the mother concerned he did not consider “que uí” too strong a statement especially when it fitted the meter and the rhyme.