Most of us love legends.These stories, which according to the definition have been transmitted from generation to generation either orally or in writing, combine natural and supernatural elements making them unique.Legends are located in a intermediate point between the real events and the mythical ones since they lay their foundations on two elements that are familiar to the community in which they are born: the place and time in which they occur.Among these types of stories we have chosen 2 Short legends Awesome Love so you can feel the passion and be moved by them.
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2 Short Legends of Love
We have chosen 2 short legends of love very rooted in two Spanish cities of rich historical tradition: Teruel and Toledo.In both cases you can see in these cities elements related to those legends.
Short legends of Love: The lovers of Teruel
The first of these short legends of love happened in the city of Teruel in the thirteenth century.It tells the story that two young people from different social positions met in the market and fell in love.She, Isabel de Segura, was the daughter of a Rich merchant and him, Diego de Marcilla (in some traditions he is also called Juan Martinez de Marcilla) had neither trade nor benefit to be able to present to the girl's father to request his hand.The young man who knew the problems represented by the different their fortune to marry, he decided to leave to get wealth.They both agreed to give themselves 5 years for Diego to return rich and could ask for his hand.
He became a soldier and left to fight against the Moors and she, before the paternal pressure to marry, told him that He had made the promise of maintaining his virginity for 5 years, until he turned 20.After that time, he promised to marry according to his father's wishes.Time was passing by and unfortunately Isabel had no news of Diego.He was alive or if he had finally achieved the necessary fortune.At the age of 5, the father demanded Isabel to fulfill his promise and the case with a Turolense man.On the same day of the wedding, Diego returned rich to the city, but It was already too late.Due to a series of impediments he had not arrived on time.At night he appeared in the chamber where the couple slept and asked Isabel for a kiss saying: «Kiss me I'm dying.» She denied him the osculo to fulfill the conjugal vows and, at the foot of the cho, Diego expired.
Isabel woke up her husband and told him what had happened.Between them they moved Diego's body to the house of her father to avoid complications, but Isabel kept thinking about the young man and what he had wanted and everything he had tried to get his hand and regretted not having kissed him and thus saved his life.next, moved by an impulse, before he was buried he went to the church where Diego's body was and approached him kissing him for a long time.The women who were there, surprised that a young woman who was not The family of the deceased was so long on him, they approached and found her dead.By kissing Diego she had died as her love.They recognized her and warned her husband.He explained his love story with Diego and both families decided to bury them next to each other.on the other.Together for eternity.
This is one of the short legends that has inspired more authors to create works literary or artistic in Spain and if you travel to Teruel you can see the Mausoleum of lovers in the church of San Pedro.
Short Legends of Love: The Christ of the Vega
In the second of these short legends of love, we moved to Toledo at the beginning of the 17th century.Legend has it that two young men named Ines de Vargas and Diego Martinez fell in love and became lovers.The father knew that his daughter's honor had been tainted and She asked Diego to repair her.He told her that as a soldier he had to leave Flanders shortly, but he gave her a promise of marriage to the Christ of La Vega on the outskirts of Toledo.Specifically he promised to marry a month after returning.As we saw in Mysterious in the Barragana article | A «legitimate woman» according to the old fueros and customs, this type of promise was equivalent to a true marriage.Ines was three years waiting for the return of Diego without result, until one day he saw him enter Toledo with some gentlemen.horse with a heart full of love, but he looked at her as if he didn't know her and turned the horse in another direction.His social position had changed and he was no longer interested in Ines nor remembered his promise.
The young woman, with broken illusions, went to the governor of Toledo, Don Pedro Ruiz de Alarcon, to intercede.He asked her for witnesses and she told him that there was only one: the Christ of the Vega.The governor summoned Ines and Diego in the hermitage, to which numerous neighbors of Toledo also went.They all knelt before the Christ and D.Pedro asked the im agen:
«Jesus, son of Mary,
before us this morning
cited as a witness
through the mouth of Ines de Vargas ,
Do you swear to be true that one day
to your divine plants
I swear to Ines Diego Martinez
for his wife to marry her? »
At that moment the lips of Christ moved and a voice was heard that said:
« Yes, I swear »
The right arm of the Christ of La Vega got rid of the wood and was in addition to swearing on the cars.The honor of Ines was washed, but both protagonists impressed by what happened, decided to take the habits and from that moment dedicate their lives to the service of God.
If you want to know, integrate this second of the short legends of love that we present to you, you can read in this link the version that made of her Jose Zorrilla with the title «A good judge, better witness».
Do you know these two short legends of love ? Do you know other short legends Do you want us to investigate and share with Mysterious followers? We await your proposals!
Images: Fernando, Diego Delso
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