Literature
The Canigou inspired a collection of poems called "Canigó" by Catalan poet Jacint Verdaguer i Santaló. In these verses Verdaguer compares the snowy mountain to a Magnolia flower:
- Lo Canigó és una magnòlia immensa
- que en un rebrot del Pirineu se bada;
- per abelles té fades que la volten,
- per papallons los cisnes i les àligues.
- Formen son càlzer escarides serres
- que plateja l’hivern i l’estiu daura,
- grandiós beire on beu olors l’estrella,
- los aires rellentor, los núvols aigua.
- Les boscúries de pins són sos bardissos,
- los Estanyols ses gotes de rosada,
- i és son pistil aqueix palau aurífic,
- somni d’aloja que del cel davalla. (p. 27-28)
Meaning: The Canigó is an immense magnolia
- that blooms in an offshoot of the Pyrenees;
- its bees are the fairies that surround it,
- and its butterflies the swans and the eagles.
- Its cup are jagged mountain chains,
- colored in silver by the winter and in gold by the summer,
- huge cup where the star drinks fragrances, the airs freshness and the clouds water.
- The pine forests are its hedges and the ponds its dew drops,
- and its pistil is that golden palace,
- seen by the nymph in her dreams descending from heaven.
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