i59B2. The Milky Way - St. James's Road. 15.16.28.
The Milky Way is St. James's Road.
Spaniards, Portuguese, Catalans, Basques, Italians, Sardinians, Sicilians, Ladins, French, Walloons, Bretons, British, Germans, Poles.
Southern Europe. Pseudo-Turpin, a chronicle of the mid-12th century, which first mentions in chapter 2 [Charlemagne saw in the night sky the road that led from the Frisian Sea to Galicia]: Rotzler 1915:804; Volpati 1933b: 9;
Basques ['The Way of Saint James', 'Road to St.Jacob's Church']: Bähr 1931:411; Knörr 2001:413; Catalans (including Mallorca) [Camí de Mallorca Santiago, camí de sant Jaume]: Amades 1930:121, Volpati 1933b:33; Sardinians [Iscalu de Santu Yagu, "Saint James's Staircase"]: Bähr 1931:412; Volpati 1933b: 15 "stairs" instead of "roads" probably under the influence of "St. Jacob, 43; Sicilians: Rotzler 1915 [not yet completely separated from life, the soul of the deceased goes to Sanyago along the Milky Way, which is covered with daggers and swords; if a person is alive made a pilgrimage (at least to the chapel in the name of Sagnago), then his soul will not have to undergo such a test]: 797, 805-806; Volpati 1933b [via di S. Jacomo di Gallizia et al.]: 27, 34; Spaniards [Camino de Santiago, everywhere]: Rotzler 1915:801; Portuguese [estrada de Sant Jago]: Rotzler 1915:801; Galicians [carreteira de Santiago]: Volpati 1933b:33; Italians ( Tuscany, Piacenza, Piedmont, West Lombardy, Liguria, Abruzzo) ["St. James's Way"]: Rotzler 1915:801; Volpati 1933b: 27-28; frets [Sontg Giachen]: Rotzler 1915:801
Western Europe. Germans [Alsace, Swabia et al.; Jakobsstrasse ("St. James's Way")]: Rotzler 1915:801; French, Walloons (everywhere) [chemin de St.-Jacques; in particular Menton, Dauphine, Dordogne, Biarritz, Limousin, Nice, Bearn, Provence, Haute-Saône, Besançon, Taon, Maine, Vosges, Savoie, Isère, Lyon, Champagne, Marne, Somme, Saône-et-Loire, Orléans, Provence, Haute-Garonne, Lorraine, French Switzerland, Belgium, Upper Brittany, Normandy]: Rotzler 1915:796, 800, 802-803, Volpati 1933b: 31-33, 45; Bretons ["Dear Saint James"]: Rotzler 1915:800 (note 1); The British ["in England have been calling the Galaxy "St. Jacob", sometimes "The Road to St. Yakov"]: Allen 1899:480.
Central Europe. Poles: Niebrzegowska 1996c [The Milky Way - "Road (St.) Jacob"]: 255; Hanuš 1860 [The Milky Way in the Sky is referred to in Poland as St. Yakuba; Yakubov's stick or star of St. Yakuba is Orion, Orion's Belt, other Slavs have simple clubs: clubs in the sky, but the Germans have Jakobsstab]: 202; Wierzbicki 1882 (Tarnow) [If the White Road in the Sky (Yakub's Road, that is, the Milky Way) is clear on Yakub's day , the weather will be good]: 174.