Classes On Portugal / Lisang na Portugal

The Mouras or Moiras Encantadas  ("Enchanted Mooressses", already mentioned here ) are entities in Portuguese folclore similar to the pagan/post-pagan fairies and pagan deities and such in Galician-Portuguese, Asturian, Castilian-Leonese and Spanish Extremadura folklore. A male equivalent, the Mouros / Moiros , also exist. The Moiras / Moiros monickers are taken equally from the proto-Celtic marwo meaning "dead" or "dark", from the Portuguese-Spanish (and later Brazilian-Uruguayan-Argentinian) idea created to try to fuse these Maruos and the North African/Muslim Mouros /Moors rationally by explaining that the Moors were enchanted into a Moorish land now transfered into the spirit world (as fairies are from the supernatural country of "fairyland",  Mouras / Moiras /Mooresses are from the supernatural country of " mourama "/" moirama ", "moorland"), to remain as hauntings and guardians of treasures after the Christi...

Senão IV ciclos valem o que tu dizes, De Palmeirins, Ordem Cavalar, Abidises, E mais ainda o de romances de coisas de Espanha  dos Afonsinhos e de Portugal. [non-literal, metric scheme keeping, English translation: It are but IV cycles whose worth it suffices, Of Palmerins, Knightly Order, Abidises, And even more so of romances out of the things of the Spain that were out of the Ark and of Portugal. non-literal, metric scheme keeping, French translation: Ne sont que IV matières à nul homme atandant, De Palmerins, Ordre de Chevalerie, Abidises, Et plus de romans des choses de l 'Espagne où La chevalerie fleurissaitt et du Portugal. ] [Poem by the author] Starting to formulate my point after my own poem(s), if Jean Bodel stated that the courtly novels and verses from the courts influenced by France in the 12th century were of three "matters" , of France (Charlemagne and the Frankish kings immediately his predecessors and successors), of Britain (of the legendary British Kin...