THE MARAÑUELA FLOWER. GENERAL BALLADS OF THE CANARY ISLANDS, VOLUME I BY DIEGO CATALÁN

"El Romancero" is a very well-known literary genre in Spanish oral literature. Many authors have been engaged in the collection of romances and ballads and their study, but in this article we will deal with one of the most important Spanish collections, quite complete for the time in which it was drawn up, the first collection of romances and ballads collected from the entire territory of the Canary Islands. Diego Catalán is the one who handled the coordination of their editing, the historical analysis of the origin, transmission and collection of romances from the islands, from the 18th century until the moment of publication, but also the compilation of some of them, an activity he did- together with his family. "La flor de la marañuela. Romancero general de las Islas Canarias, Volume I" is part of the "Romance Collection Archive" - Archivo del Romancero, an archive which today constitutes the complete universal fund of this type of oral literature and which the well- known folklorist Ramón Menéndez Pidal, the author's grandfather, had started with his wife and which, with his death, reverts to the task of Diego Catalán to conserve, catalog and publish it.