![]() The simplicity and apparent spontaneity with which the young girl expresses her feelings are generally attributed to the influence of traditional and anonymous folk lyrics sung by women going about their work in rural and coastal villages in Galicia and northern Portugal. She conveys her feelings, mostly heartache but occasionally joy, usually to her mother, girlfriend(s), or her beloved/ lover, and sometimes to objects of nature: e. The cantigas de amigo are love poems/songs characterized as having, for the most part, a young, unmarried girl who speaks about her emotions which originate from her relationship with her beloved. They were composed in the 13 th and 14 th centuries in Galician-Portuguese, the language that straddled the northern border of Portugal and Galicia, in the north west of the Iberian Peninsula. ![]() ![]() The Cantigas de amigo(Songs about the Beloved), together with the Cantigas de amor (Love Songs) and Cantigas de escarnho or de mal dezir (Songs of Ridicule and Insults), constitute a major contribution to the lyric poetry in medieval Europe. ![]()
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