colleita

EN The maize is cut close to the ground with a sickle (most of the reaping in Galicia is done with sickles, and many and many a time one sees a solitary reaper bending over her sickle or holding it for an instant above her eyes to ward off the blinding sun, and perhaps singing a melancholy strain), so that there are no yellow stubble-fields as in the Basque country, and in a few weeks in this rainy season the stumps are covered by a thick crop of grass.
GL O millo córtase a rentes do chan cun fouciño (a meirande parte da colleitas fanse con fouciños, e moitas veces vese un solitario seiturador dobrado sobre o seu fouciño, ou sosténdoo sobre os seus ollos por un momento para defenderse dos raios do sol cegador e quizais cantando unha melancólica toada), co que non hai campos amarelos de rastrollos coma no País Basco; nun prazo dunhas semanas nesta estación chuviosa, os restos están cubertos cun groso manto de herba.
Fonte: GAL (253)

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