…the bear looks mean and nasty and hovers over a stiff human figure that hardly looks like a child. It certainly doesn’t represent the fairy tale-like rescue of a princess by a benevolent bear.
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‘Difficult and uncongenial:’ the abominable Asturian mountain region
Asturias, a narrow strip of land between the coast of the Bay of Biscay and the abrupt Cantabrian Mountains. Why was it the only Christian holdout during the early Arab conquest of Spain? According to historian Roger Collins, the Arabs found campaigning in the mountainous terrain “difficult and uncongenial.”
Alaskan Pilgrim seeks Asturian Roots on Camino Primitivo
My family emigrated from Spain to Cuba in the 1800s, and my mother’s side of the family is known to have originated from Oviedo. The Camino had been calling to me and I only now heard …
Why the slash? Royal Lineage of the ancient Kingdom of Asturias
Why the slash? It was the first thing that I noted when looking at the genealogical table of Asturian Succession…
Camino Primitivo part of ‘Footprints’ film
Last Saturday night I saw the movie “Footprints: The Path of Your Life” at my local theatre here in Flagstaff, Arizona. Before going, the only thing that I knew about the documentary film was that it was about Camino de Santiago. I’d seen something that showed credits and I remember thinking that with all the…
Camino Primitivo 814
This Camino route to Santiago de Compostela is significant culturally and historically, yet historical documentation in the English language is not easy to find.
What’s the significance of ‘814’ in this blog’s title?
According to some sources, 814 AD was the year that the tomb of St James was discovered in northwestern Spain.
My misconceptions of Camino Primitivo
When I first learned of Camino Primitivo, I heard that during the Arab Conquest of Spain, Christians brought relics from Leon to hide for safe keeping in the Cathedral at Oviedo…
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