Scientific Treatise on the First Pilgrim on Camino

[Lydia Banales]

As my favorite Irishman says," All stories are true and some of them
actually happened." I believe. Lydia

Rolf Gunnar Rolfsson wrote:

>Greetings,
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>...as promised: Here is a scientific treatise on the
>subject of natural connection between minstrelsy and
>pilgrimage, in contribution to the university list
>GoCamino, with reference to popular literature and
>fantasy fiction.
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>"Once upon a time, a long time ago, in a little
>village in Gaul, where Asterix and Obelix would be
>dining on a big wild swine steak, and barbecuing on
>open fire, after a bustling day of spanking Romans
>with menhir monolith stones, then Troubadourix, the
>local bard, would feel the inspiration coming, and
>as he opens his mouth for an artistic yell, sounding
>like a wild swine call from an elephant trumpet,
>that would be able to shake the oak and drive the
>clouds together in a rainstorm, then, by some
>mysterious reason, no such sound would come over his
>lips, and as a peeping mouse he would proclaim, in a
>voice that would not move even a single leaf on a
>single branch on a single tree, and whereupon, with
>the purpose to heal Gaul and to regain the lost
>vibration of the bard, then Miraculix, the local
>druid, would come up with the idea that Troubadourix
>should walk to the end of the earth, Finisterre, and
>talk to the winds from the ocean, and there catch
>the fine breath for a song, and so the bard would
>do, and therefore Troubadourix would become the
>first first pilgrim known to man, and the first
>pilgrim ever to set foot upon Spaniola Camino..."
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>Hopefully, this TRUE story has enlightened the
>subject.
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>Further reading: http://www.asterix-obelix.nl/
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>Regards,
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>Rolf Gunnar Rolfsson
>El Camino Art Studio
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