{"id":86678,"date":"2016-01-29T17:07:33","date_gmt":"2016-01-30T01:07:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thomryng.com\/amateurmonk\/ultreia-et-suseia\/"},"modified":"2016-03-26T20:41:54","modified_gmt":"2016-03-27T03:41:54","slug":"ultreia-et-suseia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thomryng.com\/amateurmonk\/ultreia-et-suseia\/","title":{"rendered":"Ultre\u00efa et Suse\u00efa!"},"content":{"rendered":"

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\nO<\/span>n the Camino, there is an ancient greeting that is exchanged between pilgrims. Oh, those not on pilgrimage – hospitaleros, townsfolk, random people on the Way – will often shout out a hearty \u201c\u00a1buen Camino!”, but that’s not what I’m talking about.<\/p>\n

In a tradition that was first recorded in the venerable Codex Calixtinus<\/em><\/a> in the eleventh century, the pilgrim shouts “ultre\u00efa!” and his fellow pilgrim responds “et suse\u00efa!”<\/p>\n

“Ultre\u00efa” means something like “go further” or “to the end”. <\/p>\n

“Et suse\u00efa” means something like “and go higher” or even “and beyond the end”.<\/p>\n

I say “means something like” because the language in which this is said – a rustic Romance language that may be related to Proven\u00e7al or Catalan or even Galician but is the clear ancestor of none of them – is not only a dead language, it’s a dead language that almost completely avoided being written down and apparantly survives primarily in oral fragments. <\/p>\n

In any case, it was a language spoken in the villages along the Camino Fran\u00e7es before the 11th century.<\/p>\n

“Ultre\u00efa et suse\u00efa” may be its longest surviving phrase. It remains not only as a pilgrim’s greeting, but also as the refrain of a French pilgrim’s song, common along the Chemin du Puy in France.<\/p>\n

\n

\nUltre\u00efa <\/b>(French)<\/p>\n

Tous les matins nous prenons le Chemin,
\nt<\/span>ous les matins nous allons plus loin,
\njour apr\u00e8s jour la route nous appelle,
\nc\u2019est la voix de Compostelle!<\/p>\n

Chorus:<\/b>
\nUltre\u00efa! Ultre\u00efa! Et sus eia!
\nDeus adjuva nos!<\/p>\n

Chemin de terre et Chemin de foi,
\nvoie mill\u00e9naire de l\u2019Europe,
\nla voie lact\u00e9e de Charlemagne,
\nc\u2019est le Chemin de tous les jacquets!<\/p>\n

Et tout l\u00e0-bas au bout du continent,
\nMessire Jacques nous attend,
\nDepuis toujours son sourire fixe
\nLe soleil qui meurt au Finist\u00e8re.<\/p>\n

Englished:<\/b><\/p>\n

Every morning we take the path,
\nEvery morning we go further.
\nDay after day, the road calls us
\nIt is the voice of Compostela.<\/p>\n

Chorus:<\/b>
\nGo further! Go further! And go higher!
\nGod assist us!<\/p>\n

Dirt road and Faith
\nAncient way of Europe,
\nThe Milky Way of Charlemagne
\nThis is the way all my pilgrims.<\/p>\n

And while there at the end of the continent,
\nSantiago waits ahead,
\nAlways his fixed smile
\nThe sun dies in Finisterre.\n<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

\"14015518014_db97504784_b\"<\/a>As the Camino has survived, so has this phrase, which might be best translated as “Onwards and upwards!” <\/p>\n

Or perhaps even “To infinity and beyond!”<\/p>\n

It is the acclamation of the pilgrim, of the Seeker for Truth, meeting a kindred spirit and exhorting them to continue, to perservere in both a physical and a spiritual sense.<\/p>\n

“Ultre\u00efa!”<\/p>\n

“Et suse\u00efa!”<\/p>\n

(Originally posted to Pilgrims on the Way<\/a>.)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

On the Camino, there is an ancient greeting that is exchanged between pilgrims. Oh, those not on pilgrimage – hospitaleros, townsfolk, random people on the Way – will often shout out a hearty \u201c\u00a1buen Camino!”, but that’s not what I’m talking about. In a tradition that was first recorded in the venerable Codex Calixtinus in the eleventh century, the pilgrim […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[40],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-86678","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-camino"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p1aGBK-my2","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":false,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":107753,"url":"https:\/\/www.thomryng.com\/amateurmonk\/the-gathering-2023\/","url_meta":{"origin":86678,"position":0},"title":"The Gathering, 2023","author":"Thom","date":"19 April 2023","format":false,"excerpt":"years ago, Francine and I took our Hospitalero training at the annual Gathering of American Pilgrims on the Camino in South Lake Tahoe. 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