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1390, José Luis Pensado Tomé, editor, Os Miragres de Santiago. Versión gallega del Códice latino del siglo XII atribuido al papa Calisto I, Madrid: C.S.I.C, page 70:
vio hũu camino d'estrelas que se começaua sobre lo mar de Frisa et ya por ontre Alamana et Ytalia et por ontre França et Aquitaia et ya dereytamente por meogo da Gascona et por Nauara et por Espana, et ya ferir en Galiza
He saw a way in the stars, starting over the sea of Friesland and then going in between Germany and Italy, and in between France and Aquitaine, and then right through the middle of Gascony and Navarre and Spain, and it ended in Galicia
1295, Ramón Lorenzo, editor, La traducción gallega de la Crónica General y de la Crónica de Castilla, Ourense: I.E.O.P.F., page 174:
os condes de Galiza, poys que nõ poderõ sofrer o mal que el rey dõ Rramiro lles fazia, alçarõ rey en Sanctiago a dõ Bermudo, fillo del rey dõ Ordono
The counts of Galicia, as they could not endure the pain that king Ramiro was inflicting on them, crowned Bermudo —the son of king Ordoño— as king in Santiago
Xavier Varela Barreiro, Xavier Gómez Guinovart (2006–2018) “Galiza”, in Corpus Xelmírez - Corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: ILG