Mendinho
It has been admired for its imagery (critics say the girl is afraid of the waves of her own passion), its rhythm, and its formal and semantic parallelism (including the system of alternating strophes with the rhymes-sounds -on(or)/-ar).
In 1998, the Día das Letras Galegas (Galician Letters Day) was dedicated to Mendinho, along with Martín Codax and Xohán de Cangas.
Sedia-m'eu na ermida de San Simion e cercaron-mi as ondas, que grandes son, eu atendendo meu amigo.
Estando na ermida ant'o altar, cercaron-mi as ondas grandes do mar, eu atendendo meu amigo.
E cercaron-mi as ondas do alto mar: non ei i barqueiro, nen sei remar, eu atendendo meu amigo.
A fada e o dragón
The sculpture, cast in bronze, represents a nymph with two flutes, riding a winged dragon's back. With this piece, the artist ( Xaime Quessada ) pays tribute to Galicia's oral culture and the medieval poets and troubadours who, like Martin Codax , or Mendinho, celebrated the bounties of Vigo's sea.