Luzaideko euskara Nicolas Polit zenaren izkribuetan

Abstract

Texts written in Basque by Nicolas Polit, a priest from Valcarlos and later on a well-known prior in the monastery of Roncesvalles, are edited and presented for the first time. Two sermons were selected out of his much larger hand-written production which has been preserved. The first sermon deals with the defence of religion and it dates back to 1868 or 1870. The second one is about the Last Judgement and it was written between 1868 and 1872. The author provides us with data on Polit's life, and about the Valcarlos and Roncesvalles of the time. He emphasizes the dialectological interest of these texts and makes reference to some other texts is also analysed: it does belong to the variety of Valcarlos, altough there are a few discrepancies (especially orthographic ones) between Polit and F. Echeverri (previously a priest and Basque writer from ValcarIos; cf. about him the articles by I. Segurola and the author in ASJU XIX-I and XX-I, respectively). The differences may be due to the fact that Polit was of Eastern origin (Burguete) and Echeverri being from Valcarlos itself, was deeply involved in the Northern tradition. At the end of the work a vocabulary of the main words in the text is given.