The Comte Mal lost his disputes with the people of Santa Margalida, where he was banished, which did not hinder him from reaching a significant position in the Mallorca of his time.
In the palace Can Formiguera, his house in Palma next to the cathedral in La Portella street, it is said that the Count Mal built the tower characterizing the building, to watch his beloved, a nun of the convent of the Clares.
Legend and reality intermingled, thanks to the nineteenth century literature and to an oral tradition, have made of the Comte Mal one of the best-known myths of popular culture in Mallorca.
When Barbarossa, dips (or vampires) and other ogres and evil are part of our cultural tradition and it is time to achieve relief Count Arnau that taking appointed into account the original and popular literary reworkings later.
Around this song there is a whole world from the popular tradition that focuses on the adventures of Count Arnau to the people who have studied and writers (a fairly complete compendium of the great figures of modern Catalan literature) that are used to the legends collateral.
As Thomas says in the foreword to the book Racing Romeo and Lawrence shows us Meadows (The myth of the folk tradition (1988), born this way "line and erudite scholar" on the song Count Arnau will have its culmination Rossend the work of Serra and Josep Romeu Figueras and Labrador