
Lekuona Etxebeste, Miren Arantzazu
32 articles
LARREA, Toda de (Biographies)
A lady from Bilbao from the 15th century. In 1476, King Ferdinand the Catholic came to swear the Fueros of Bizkaia and had amorous relations with her,(...)Read the article
Gaxen, Inesa (Biographies)
Basque heroine, victim of the religious persecution of the first third of the 17th century. She was from Labastide-Clairence , in Lower Navarre, and w(...)Read the article
BAYONET (Lexicon)
Steel weapon used for assault. It is a generally held opinion that the first bayonets were invented in Bayonne and that the very name given to this we(...)Read the article
Baztandarren Biltzarra (Festivals-Events)
Baztandarren Biltzarra is the brotherhood festival of the villages of the Baztan Valley. It has been held in Elizondo since 1963 on the Sunday the fe(...)Read the article
UTRIMQUE RODITUR (Lexicon)
Latin term equivalent to ‘gnawed on both sides’. The 16th-century Navarrese historian R. Avalos de la Piscina attributes it as a motto to the Prin(...)Read the article
FANDERIA (Lexicon)
An industrial method of working iron, independent of the forges in the 18th century, where different parts were manufactured, such as iron strips and (...)Read the article
INGUMA (Lexicon)
A maleficent genie that appears at night in houses when the inhabitants are a. It squeezes the throat of one of them, making it difficult for them to (...)Read the article
The Impossible Defeated (Literary Figures)
Famous work by Manuel de Larramendi published under the title El Imposible Vencido. Arte de la Lengua Vascongada, printed in Salamanca in 1729.Its nam(...)Read the article
SARALEGUI, Cristina (Log Chopping)
Aizkolari from Navarre born in Leitza in 1974. She was a pioneer of female participation in this modality within the Herri Kirolak Federation, althoug(...)Read the article
MAIRUBARATZAK (Megalithic monuments)
Group of twenty-two cromlechs located in the mountains of Oiartzun (Gipuzkoa); 6 on the summit Egiluze and Egiar; 3 in Arritxolaga a; 10 in Erengazela(...)Read the article
Lullabies (Musicals)
Son las "nanas", aquellas canciones usadas para hacer dormir a niños de corta edad. En euskera se les llama Lo-kantak, en Murélaga, según Azkue, dr(...)Read the article
Wet nurses in Gipuzkoa (Concept)
A wet nurse or wet nurse was a woman who breastfed an infant who was not her own.The most common reasons for their use were child abandonment or the m(...)Read the article