I somehow doubt, too, that the meme was present in the eastern end of the Pyrenees when she arrived. Various factors suggest that this song isnвЂ™t nineteenth century fakelore: the fact that the Violant connection doesnвЂ™t seem to have occurred to Amades, the lack of any other modern source вЂ“ Ms Marginet probably learnt her song before the revivalists got anywhere near her and long after Violant had passed from memory. This daughter of the king of Hungary is surely Violant Some synonymsДЄndreas (Esztergom ca 1215-ca 1251 Spain), daughter of Andrew II of Hungary and Iolande of Courtenay, who in her brief life became the second wife of Jaume I of Aragon (Montpellier 1207-1276 Valencia) in Barcelona in 1235, bore four sons and five daughters and meddled in royal politics.

MIDI The enchanted girl, daughter of the King of Hungary HereвЂ™s her text followed by a MIDI version of the tune: A hunter has his eyes on a stag drinking at a spring up on the mountain, but the stag cries: вЂњHunter, donвЂ™t shoot me, IвЂ™m not a stag, IвЂ™m a girl, IвЂ™m the King of HungaryвЂ™s daughter.вЂќ At lightning speed, the hunter calculates that a foreign princess is worth even more than a talking stag and offers to marry her.ДЄmades noted the song in 1918 from the 75- or 76-year-old Margarida Marginet, an illiterate pig-keeper and herbalist of Riu de Cerdanya up in the Pyrenees. I know of three versions of the вЂњLa Nina EncantadaвЂќ in print, of which the one in AmadesвЂ™ CanГ§oner is remarkable because it feels like it might refer to a historical event. Some of these representations may be local inventions вЂ“ the sight of a stag is enough to get anyone going вЂ“ but others almost certainly originated elsewhere, and I want to concentrate on one of the latter, a song called The Enchanted Girl.

Myths include one about a doomed hunter, one in which a stag becomes a distinctly non-aerodynamic Shaven Arse, and several Arthurian variants. Various local place names refer to the stag (Cerver, CГ©rvoles).

The oldest local images I know are the Neolithic graffiti at Cogul, Lleida (although the villageвЂ™s big annual feast celebrates pig killing), I recently blogged Pere Quart and Xavier NoguГ©sвЂ™s 1937 stag, and I will shortly post photos of a spectacular 14th century zoomorph. Red deer ( Cervus elaphus) didnвЂ™t die out in the Pyrenees until WWI (they were reintroduced for hunting under Franco in the 50s) and the locals over the centuries accumulated a considerable body of art starring big multi-branched horny beasts.

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