Ondas do mare (Martim Codax) - 13th c. Galician-Portuguese cantiga d'amigo

Ondas do mar de Vigo, se vistes meu amigo? Ei ai Deus! Se verra cedo?
Waves of the sea of Vigo, have you seen my friend? Oh God! Will he come to me soon?

Ondas do mar levado, se vistes meu amado? Ei ai Deus! Se verra cedo?
Waves of the rising sea, have you seen my lover? Oh God! Will he come to me soon?

Se vistes meu amigo, o por que eu sospiro? Ei ai Deus! Se verra cedo?
Have you seem my friend, for whom I sigh?Oh God! Will he come to me soon?

Se vistes meu amado, o por que ei gran coidado? Ei ai Deus! Se verra cedo?
Have you seen my lover, for whom I grieve?Oh God! Will he come to me soon?

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Martín Codax (or Martim Codax) was a Galician medieval jogral (non-noble composer and performer -- as opposed to a trobador), possibly from Vigo, Galicia in present day Spain. He may have been active during the middle of the thirteenth century.

The body of work attributed to him consists of seven cantigas d' amigo which appear in the Galician-Portuguese songbooks and in the Vindel parchment.

The song cycle Cantigas de Amigo is attributed to Martin Codax, a troubadour who is said to have fourished in Galicia during the late 13th Century. The cantiga
de amigo is a genre of Iberian medieval poetry (written in the voice of a woman, to an absent lover), and this is the only example to have survived with music.
Written in the northern Spanish dialect of Gallician-Portugese, which was in common use during the Medieval period, it features seven short poems, six of
which were set to music (one appearing with blank staves).

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[ruigeada]

Martin Códax Por que Trobar e Cousa en que Iaz

Grupo de Música Antigua de Compostela

[Haramyst]

Beautiful - but is this the actual music associated with this Cantiga? And who is performing it? It sounds rather like Arianna Saval...