El Gran Carlemany

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El Gran Carlemany English: The Great Charlemagne
National Anthem of	Andorra
Lyrics	Enric Marfany Bons
Music	Joan Benlloch i Vivó
Adopted	1921

El Gran Carlemany (The Great Charlemagne) is the national anthem of Andorra. Written by Enric Marfany Bons (1871-1942) and composed by Joan Benlloch i Vivó (1864-1926), it was adopted in 1921.

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Catalan Lyrics	English Translation
El gran Carlemany, mon Pare dels alarbs em deslliurà, I del cel vida em donà de Meritxell, la gran Mare, Princesa nasquí i Pubilla entre dues nacions neutral Sols resto l'única filla de l'imperi Carlemany. Creient i lliure onze segles, creient i lliure vull ser. Siguin els furs mos tutors i mos Prínceps defensors! I mos Princeps defensors!	The great Charlemagne, my Father, liberated me from the Saracens, And from heaven he gave me life from Meritxell, the great Mother. I was born a Princess, a Maiden neutral between two nations. I am the only remaining daughter of the Carolingian empire A believer and free for eleven centuries, a believer and free I want to be. Be the laws of the land my tutors, and my defender Princes! And my defender Princes!

Catalan Lyrics

English Translation

El gran Carlemany, mon Pare dels alarbs em deslliurà,

I del cel vida em donà de Meritxell, la gran Mare,
Princesa nasquí i Pubilla entre dues nacions neutral
Sols resto l'única filla de l'imperi Carlemany.
Creient i lliure onze segles, creient i lliure vull ser.
Siguin els furs mos tutors i mos Prínceps defensors!

I mos Princeps defensors!

The great Charlemagne, my Father, liberated me from the Saracens,

And from heaven he gave me life from Meritxell, the great Mother.
I was born a Princess, a Maiden neutral between two nations.
I am the only remaining daughter of the Carolingian empire
A believer and free for eleven centuries, a believer and free I want to be.
Be the laws of the land my tutors, and my defender Princes!

And my defender Princes!