Of the signs that will appear

Of the signs that will appear is an erudite poem by Gonzalo de Berceo, opposed to popular epic poetry and that of the minstrels.

Of the signs that will appear before the trial

Sennores, if you wanted to attend a little, 1
Querriavos tell a little ratiello
A sermon that was the prisoner of a holy libriello
Que fizo Sant Iheronimo un preçioso cabdiello.
Our father Iheronimo pastor of us understand, 2
Reading in ebreo in essa his legend
Trovó cosas estrannas de estranna façienda:
Whoever hears them wants, has to have a good snack.
Trovó the omne good among everything to 3
That before the juiçio, of the cabdal juiçio,
Veman very great signs a fierce temporal,
That the world will be seen in mortal pressure.
By that was written by the agreed man, 4
Let the people who go astray be feared,
Meiore in customs, faga to God paid,
Que non sea de Xpo entonçe desemparado.
Esti will be the one of the doubted signs: 5
The sea will rise to the clouds many states,
Higher than the mountains and more than the hills,
So much so that in dry they will farm the fish.
Pn the omnes, iranse to lose,
Want, if they could, so the earth to put.
The fifth of the signs shall be of grant pavura, 11
Of herbs and trees and of all vegetables,
Commo diçe Sant Iheronimo, pure blood will flow:
Those who do not see it, will be grant ventura.

Fragment of the work

Reference edition: Madrid, Manuel Rivadeneyra, 1864.