Arruazuko gabon-kanta zaharra

Abstract

In the last edition of the year space was given over to this popular Christmas carol recently found in Arruazu. The custom of celebrating Christmas Eve with a midnight mass to the music of tambourines and castanets and dressed in shepherd's garb, as was habitual in many places, was preserved in this village up until the first decades of chis century. The text represents a testimony to the songs which have gradually disappeared over time.