A while ago I explained here the story of the wedding of the zarzuela Rubus ulmifolius and R. fruticosus, told by the late Inaxio of the Houses of Aia. Llabur: the laharra wanted to marry and the others did not give her permission, they answered in a moment and the curse, "if I can not grasp everything that happens on the side". And how is it going to bring the bush to anyone? Stretch and stretch the branches like the syringes and put them into a barn. Needed thorn.

There are a lot of thorns. Some are to grab and hold like those on the bush, they have a special shape, the sickle, and the tip of the tap, but the foot is thick and firm. Others are thin, long, straight, suitable for not maturing, but for fitting the chixt. There are those who break them and bring them into the skin to form a pasm or tetanus, which you will remember perfectly. Others give him a mammal and only leave him a wound, which also reminds you.

The Basques would have been very lucky with the thorny of our landscape, and we have a broad expression in the language. How many names to say thorn! You are, thorn, otaer, ski, ziri, xats, zizpir, zirir larrantza, puncture, xixta, burna, ezten, erren, erut, espi, escarda, zizpiot, ar, ezkalda, kizki… and what I don’t know…

In the book, Alex Mendizabal, who collected articles as selected as this, was dressed with 111 leaves and leaves, friend Alex Mendizabal chose the one who had as his theme the cranberry (Vaccinium myrtillus) of his 50 orchard items, “Bihotzeko oketa.” In it he added the chain of synonyms of the word “sasitza”: matorral, arantzadi sasi, elortegi, sasitza, sastra, satar, elorrieta, elorrilardi, txaga, txaraka, matorral, sasiarte, lahardi, elordi, arantzarte, arduar, arantzadi, arantzadi, and arantzadi. If I wrote this book today, that string would also be: arantzaga, arantzategi eta matstrapa, sasitegi, elorriaga, txara, txaradi, matorral, arantzategi.

We Basques need animals accustomed to so many words and thorns that at some point would have made our skin difficult. Today I come to you that when people, people on thorny floors, are recovering the mountains, will these fine, delicious, smooth cortices recover? And prepare for puncture?