Las sagas del pasado vasco en la interpretación nacionalista de la historia

Abstract

This article studies in depth the version of the bask history given by the Basque Nationalist Party ever since the Transition. According to its in-house trend and various references and sources, appreciates this view over the past which describes three sagas, consecutive and complementary, but each of them with its own parameters and functions. The first saga embraces the nationalist allusions to the millenary history of the Basques, and refers to the thousands of years that, in this assumption, have the age of the Basques. Conforms a key period, as, in this view, in such a huge stage, The Basque identity was made. The «second saga» starts in the middle ages and reaches the 19th century. Makes up a kind of legal- historic philosophy for which the «Fuero» (regional law), representation of an original sovereignty, is the nuclear element of the Basque past. Ends up the period with the abolition of the «Fuero» (regional law), that would be the breaking-off by the Spanish liberal democratic society with a medieval pact between the Basques and Spanish Crown. The third saga, that interprets the last period of the Basque history, starts with the appearance of nationalism, and is about the —named from the PNV point of view— Basque fight against Spanish oppression and the resurrection of the Basque people, thanks to such a fight.