There is an initiative to correct “important” errors in the Galician anthem and to update it

The text of the current anthem of Galicia does not refer to the original Edward Pondal. This either concludes your research or a musicologist Fernando Lopez-Acuna eo professor at the University of A Coruña Manuel Ferreiro, that xa anecchara is a study from 1996 where it showed the deformation of the text. No parliament has registered before the popular legislative initiative (ILP) promoted by about thirty people, among them the subjects of Vía Galega and Galiza Cultura, as well as the researchers themselves, who claim to correct the perceived errors and restore the original anthem.

In the explanation of the ILP false reference to Castilianisms and hyperenxebrisms as “ronco/rouco” or “ignorant” (written ignorant in the original form), as well as deturpación gives the original expression “by a process of textual trivialization, moving from clan —pobo— to chan.” They also observe the occurrence of spurious and non-existent idiomatic forms in Pondal’s poem and also in the language, such as the substitution of “ferrid” for “ferrid”. Second, they indicated to the initiators of the initiative that the poet was aware of “those textual twists” when he warned in a letter dated January 11, 1913 that “there are a few mistakes in the text”, so they should be corrected. in due course”. However, Pondalo’s health condition does not allow me to correct these errors. Now they are asking the parliament to amend them 115 years after the anthem was first performed at the Gran Teatro da Habana.

The text submitted for the ILP must now be analyzed by a parliamentary committee and, subsequently, overcome the collection of signatures supporting its debate in the parliament.

The origin of the error

Vía Galega and Galiza Cultura claim that the verses approved by the Official Gazette of Galicia in 1984 do not include the stanzas of the poem Os Pinos from the original Pontian script, a standard based on the “never-deficient editorial version made in 1935, the centenary of the poet’s birth”. “O feito desa edición ter inherited and accumulated errors and textual distortions accumulated over the years explain the official text of the anthem, which can be renewed and updated four decades after the promulgation of the Law on Symbols,” claim the promoters of the initiatives.

After the update or anthem, they ask that the lyrics be published and “massively” promoted in educational centers, associations and music ensembles.