Muñagorriren bertsoak
Muñagorriren bertsoak were a set of written bertsos—extemporaneous poems in Basque—fashioned and released in Gipuzkoa, Basque Country during 1838 on the last stage of the First Carlist War in Spain. The First Carlist War saw the publication of bertso leaflets promoting one faction or another, with some of them reaching wide circulation and influence in public opinion across Basque language areas, the main Carlist stronghold.
The Muñagorri bertsos were issued by José Antonio Muñagorri's faction with a view to encouraging a split with Carlos de Borbón and an end to war, in exchange for keeping a reduced version of home rule in the Basque Country—"Peace and Fueros." Muñagorri's influence on the ground was small, but his talks with Liberals in Madrid paved the way to the Embrace of Bergara.
While the whole version extends longer, the reduced, most widely known version is made up of six paragraphs, and popularized in modern times by singer-songwriter Benito Lertxundi.
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