The Traitor in Nuno Treez 2

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Rip Cohen
Johns Hopkins University
United States
Vol 46 (2019), Articles, pages 109-124
DOI: https://doi.org/10.15304/verba.46.4413
Submitted: 07-11-2017 Accepted: 13-07-2018 Published: 09-09-2019
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The traitor (traedor) against whom a girl vows vengeance in a cantiga d’amigo of Nuno Treez (presumably a thirteenth century Galician jograr) might be thought to be San Clemenço, to whom the text is addressed, but an examination of pragmatic criteria supports the argument that the traitor is the girl’s boyfriend, who may merely be late in returning to her.

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Galician-Portuguese lyric, cantigas d’amigo, Nuno Treez, literary pragmatics, amorous betrayal and vengeance
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