Os Pinos is the anthem

National anthem

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 of Galicia. The lyrics are by Eduardo Pondal

Eduardo Pondal

Eduardo María González-Pondal Abente was a Spanish poet, who wrote in both Spanish and GalicianOf Hidalgo origin Pondal was the youngest of a family of seven. From 1884 onwards he studied Latin in a school in Vilela de Nemiña which belonged to his cleric relative, Cristobal Lago...

 (the two first parts of his poem Queixumes dos pinos - Lamentations of the Pines) and the music by Pascual Veiga. It was composed in Havana

Havana

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, Cuba

Cuba

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, where it was performed for the first time in 1907. It was officially adopted by the Galician authorities in 1977.

Galician

Que din os rumorosos

na costa verdecente,

ó raio transparente

do prácido luar?

Que din as altas copas

de escuro arume harpado

co seu ben compasado

monótono fungar?

Do teu verdor cinguido

e de benignos astros,

confín dos verdes castros

e valeroso chan,

non deas a esquecemento

da inxuria o rudo encono;

desperta do teu sono

fogar de Breogán

Breogán

Breogán son of Brath was a mythical Celtic king from Galicia. Various accounts exist of this mythological father of the Galician nation. His sons were Ith and Bile . Bile was the father of Mil Espaine....

.

Os bos e xenerosos

a nosa voz entenden,

e con arroubo atenden

o noso rouco son,

mais só os iñorantes,

e féridos e duros,

imbéciles e escuros

non os entenden, non.

Os tempos son chegados

dos bardos das idades

que as vosas vaguidades

cumprido fin terán;

pois onde quer, xigante

a nosa voz pregoa

a redenzón da boa

nazón de Breogán.

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English

What do the murmurers say

On the verdant coast

Under the transparent beam

Of the calm moonlight?

What do the lofty treetops

Of dark bent pine twigs say

In their harmonious

Monotonous buzzing?

Girded by thy greenness,

And by benign stars,

Bound of the green hill forts

And worthy land,

Do not let into oblivion

The harsh rancour of insult;

Awaken from thy slumbers,

O hearth of Breoghan

Breogán

Breogán son of Brath was a mythical Celtic king from Galicia. Various accounts exist of this mythological father of the Galician nation. His sons were Ith and Bile . Bile was the father of Mil Espaine....

.

The good and generous

Our voice do understand,

And eagerly they hearken

To our rough sounds;

But only the ignorant,

And barbaric and hard,

Those foolish and dark

Do not understand us.

The times are now upon us

Sung by the ancient bards,

When all your wanderings

Shall promptly meet their end;

For everywhere, gigantic,

Our voice loudly proclaimeth

The redemption of the good

Nation of Breoghan.

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Trivia

In WC1982, at the Poland vs Italy match at Vigo, Os Pinos was played mistakenly instead of Mazurek Dąbrowskiego; however, Mazurek Dąbrowskiego was played after the Italian anthem beside the Spanish one.

External links

• Another translation into English