Galician: Negra sombra-Black Shadow

Galician: Negra sombra-Black Shadow

“Negra sombra” [Black Shadow] is one of the poems in the collection Follas Novas [New Leaves] published in 1880. This poetry collection, together with Cantares gallegos [Galician Songs] is widely considered as one of the foundational works in Galician literature. Written by Rosalía de Castro (Santiago de Compostela, 1837-Padrón, 1835), “Negra sombra” is one of the most emblematic and recognized Galician poems after composer Xoán Montés Capón (1840-1899) fused it with a traditional Galician alalá ballad.

About the Galician language: Galego is one of five languages spoken in the Iberian Peninsula together with Basque, Catalan, Portuguese and Spanish. Galician is spoken by approximately 2.4 million people mainly in Galicia.

Rosalía de Castro
Carmela Ferradáns

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Galician

Carmela Ferradáns

Vigo, Spain