Ultreya/ unsubcrbing gocamino

[Fernando Dulay]

Dear Linda:
   Inroducing:Fernando D. Dulay, a retire physician
ready to leave for a cycling camino leaving San
Francisco on May 21st carrying all the information
learned thru the gocxamino website.
    Me problema: Using the listservalistserv.uri.edu
email I have not been able to unsubscribe.  Would you
kindly help  solve this for me and also please update
me on how to get back on again which will happen when
I return July 4th.  Many thanks.
Ultreya!              Fernando

--- linda davidson <davidsonaETAL.URI.EDU> wrote:
> Ultreya is one of those wonderful medieval words
> wrapped around the First
> Crusade (in Jerusalem):
> ultreya (ultramar) means over the sea. In the old
> days Spanish stores that
> were selling canned goods were often called
> "ultramarinos" because the
> products came from . . .
> "Ultreya" or "Ultreia" appeared several times in
> early French troubadour
> poetry when the lovely lady was bemoaning her
> lover's absence in the
> crusades.
>
> In the twelfth-century _Liber Sancti Jacobi_ (does
> everyone know about
> this? sometimes called the _Codex Calixtinus_, when
> we refer to the copy
> that is in the Compsotela Cathedral's library)
> appended to the main manuscript are several hastily
> written pages (folios)
> with bits and pieces (other miracles, hymns, etc.).
> On one of the folios is the "Dum Pater Familias"
> hymn which has become the
> signal hymn of the pilgrimage. There are lots of
> recordings of it - usually
> sung a bit to slow to hike to in my opinion, but
> that's another matter.
>
> At the end of of the first verse comes a refrain and
> at the end of it,
> written once this phrase:
> Herru Sanctiagu   Got Santiagu
> Eultreia   Esuseia
> Deus aia nos
>
> Most scholars agree on a Flemish influence in the
> wording the "Herru
> Sanctiagu and Got Santiagu" (got meaning gut, or
> good.  Deus aia nos is
> probably  "Dios ayuda nos": God, help us
>
> I think most people basically agree that the other
> words, Eultreia    Esus
> eia were meant to be encouraging sounds (much like
> the more modern "Animo"
> that we hear from passing pilgrims nowdays) and
> picked up from crusades
> lyric.
>
> Anyone who has worked with this refrain (and there
> are several, including
> myself) knows, too, that this is not the only time
> that the phrase is used
> in the LSJ manuscript: it appears a folio earlier in
> another hymn
>
> Linda D


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