Cantiga 041 of the Cantigas de Santa Maria of Alfonso X

Garin the Moneychanger
   There was a moneychanger named Garin.
   The devil scared him out of his wits.
   He went mad.
   The Virgin restored Garin’s senses.
   The Virgin gave him Paradise.
   The narrator praises the Virgin’s mercy.

Source: upenn.edu. Reproduced from the Edición facsímil del Códice T.I.1 de la Biblioteca de San Lorenzo el Real de El Escorial, Siglo XIII. Edilán, 1979. Made available open access by the University of Pennsylvania.

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