Hernán Núñez (1555) e Gonzalo de Correas (1627): os primeiros refraneiros galegos

En 1555 publicouse en Salamanca Refranes o Proverbios en Romance, obra póstuma de Hernán Núñez de Toledo y Guzmán (1475-1553), voluminoso traballo no que se documentan 8.557 formas sentenciosas, das cales 134 son galegas. Un século máis tarde, concretamente en 1627, o paremiólogo Gonzalo de Correas (1571–1631) editou o seu Vocabulario de refranes y frases proverbiales y otras fórmulas comunes de la lengua castellana na que se atopan unhas 18.000 paremias: só 54 son galegas. A pesares dos múltiples erros gramaticais que se atopan nas paremias galegas, consecuencia do descoñecemento que ámbolos dous autores tiñan da nosa lingua, o seu traballo foi de vital importancia na preservación dunha parte do noso acervo cultural e mesmo constituíu a base sobre a que se sustentarían os refraneiros posteriores. // Refranes o Proverbios en Romance is a voluminous work containing 8,557 proverbs, from which 134 are of Galician origin. That work by Hernán Núñez de Toledo y Guzmán (1475-1553) was posthumously published in 1555 in Salamanca. In 1627, almost one hundred years later, the work Vocabulario de refranes y frases proverbiales y otras fórmulas comunes de la lengua castellana by Gonzalo de Correas (1571-1631) was published containing 18,000 proverbs – only 54 of them are Galician proverbs. Although the Galician proverbs included in both works contain several grammatical mistakes –due to the fact that both authors had no knowledge of the Galician language– these books have been essential for preserving Galician cultural heritage and have even been the basis on which latter proverb collections were made