Galician literature

thumb|right|The troubadour Perdigon playing his fiddle

1880 poem collection by Rosalía de Castro

1959 novel by Eduardo Blanco Amor

body of literature

Spanish publisher

historic and social novel by Xosé Neira Vilas

Galician nationalist intellectual group of the 1920s

thumb|Miniature from the Cancioneiro da Ajuda, showing a soldadeira (right) dancing and playing the [[pandeiro.]] The Galician-Portuguese term soldadeira, and the Spanish term soldadera, meant a woman of questionable morality who danced and performed gymnastic exercises during the performance of playwrights or troubadours. They have been referred to as "spiritual heirs" of the puellae gaditanae mentioned by Martial and Juvenal.