Harkaitz MILLAN, Member of Culture of the Provincial Council of Gipuzkoa, explained that these are poems found in a notary protocol from Azkoitia. The finding has been announced at a press conference in the research class of the cultural center Koldo Mitxelena, where they explained that the preservation of the texts to date has been a "lucky carambola": "The document containing the poems was used as a cover for the quartile of a will writing and has managed to reach the present date. The writings were not in fact created in a text that had to be preserved."

Millan pointed out that they could be the oldest original poems in the Basque Country, dated around 1515, and in the Basque Country. A request by researcher Rosa Aierbe in the Historical Archive of Gipuzkoa has made it possible to locate the writings: "The presence of a few words written in Euskera about a notarial form writing attracted the attention of the researcher, who put the research into the hands of the file".

The philologist Ander Ros Cubas, a member of the research team, explained that when they first saw the document, they had "a kind of frustration": "They could not be read, but thanks to calm and cooperation we have finally managed to read the most." "The fact that the document has been used for the physical protection of notary documents and that phrases in Basque are written among the slots left by a Spanish text has added a great difficulty for interpretation, in addition to the length of the writings. The writing mold is a cursive gothic, which increases the difficulty, some letters are very similar and therefore difficult to distinguish. They have pointed out that the problem "can be read and understood" for the most part, although the text still requires "an in-depth study" in order to be able to definitively identify the gender.

A "long tradition"

At first, they explained that they believed they were letters, since "it does not have a poetic structure": "The unknown author repented, sketched out and you can see that he started with a second poem," the author explained in a statement. They point out that no older poems have been preserved than these, but that this does not mean that they are the first writings: -It's easy to see that before that there was a long tradition that didn't start from scratch. The author uses elements of the lyric then, but in a rather incoherent way." From the point of view of the Basque Country it has a "great value" and everything is interesting from the linguistic point of view: "we see that the language is fairly settled and that therefore tradition is written in Basque".

Transcription of poem

My beautiful accent...two sketches of the love poems of the Archaic Basque here, with the characteristics of the Guipuzkoan dialect. Unfinished text, with the text between the edges and the lines of writing:

My beautiful sweet kiss

I'm sorry.

In Orrey that cares for me

How I Leave

"What devil, sword?"

Follow us in your ears

Andicos and Others

Incisively Barcaçio diqueçut,

usually have a spider erayten

lecobidi guiçon joven

With boring pain

feather canvas

For my love yçu

my ship crying

çaldiac [ag]ueri

To me [j]an my love

leena [on]ezquero

oy [d]aducat is the interior of my vioca.

One day] I/Joeala

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Goyçean goyçic jagui non one day a week, one day a week, it is the day before sunrise, in the equivocal velagay au[if] there was a neurc nay in the viá, there I touched colpe andiac, in the center of the vioçons.

When I went to church, when I had the colpe, I put on the Velaurico, confessing with my neighbor in front of me, gave me the suspensive penis, vide nevan bequela.

Vitarteco em[en] ni[a]gon