marcin
(Marcin)
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were always or almost always endured,
tolerated, but at times even resisted and
contested. That explains why, then, the glue
of all the various cultures of the island, of all
the infinite gamut of dialects (but there are
those who maintain that Sardinian is a true
language, with the authority of people like
Max L. Wagner, a true “archaic narrative
with its own marked characteristics,” (La
lingua sarda, Berne, 1951) has been and still is
today, for the most part, that variably
religious sentiment, which one could say
was born with the gosos, spiritual and
religious songs that allowed the Sardinians
to speak inter nos a language which was not
hostile, even indifferent to the rulers, if not
totally accepted by them and almost
solicited, as in the case of Spanish rulers.
There is no doubt that the Sardinian muse
has retained until now a sensual, religious
