what does "se enferno de gravedad?" mean

Question

it is taken from "el Sirenito" by Rigo Tovar. Cuando buceaba por el fondo del océano Me enamore de una bellísima sirena Fuera del mar sin vacilar pedí su mano Y nos casamos en la playas de caletas Pasaron mas de nueve meses sin ninguna novedad Pero cerquita de los trece se enfermo de gravedad

Answer 1

hmm, thank you

Answer 2

puede morrir.

Answer 3

I think that "se enfermo de gravidad" is not actually refering to the siren but to the couple's situation. Something like: "More than nine months went by without incident. But, just as the thirteenth month approached, things became vastly more troublesome" See enfermar which doesn't always have to be in the context of getting sick. I'm not sure about this but it does seem to make sense being that he is accused in Neptune's court of eating his wife for breakfast and sentenced to be shot by a firing squad until she shows up and saves him.

Answer 4

Viernes de dolores is a catholic holiday, but I have sources that say it is the friday before good friday, and that it is good friday, I wonder if it is a day of fasting also

Answer 5

If you go to this site and Translate the page you can see a very bad machine translation into English, but it translates it as "gravely ill" and "Friday of Sorrows".

lyrics

Answer 6

Something like:

While I was diving along the ocean floor, I fell in love with a beautiful siren. Once out of the sea, without hesitation, I asked for her hand, and we were married on the shore. More than nine months went by without incident. But, just as the thirteenth month approached, she became deathly ill.

actually its enfermo de gravedad - orangemangoez, Feb 28, 2010

Answer 7

Hmmm...perhaps a reference to going into labor??? I'm afraid I'm just an advanced beginner at Spanish.

Thats what i was thinking, but then it could mean very sick, because he was accused by shark soldiers of, uhm, eating her? - orangemangoez, Feb 28, 2010

plus, I thought that viing birth was "dar a luz", a friend in Mexico used that when he showed me two plants you can use to help with inflammation, one of the plants was "pata de vaca" because it looked like a cows foot. - orangemangoez, Feb 28, 2010

Answer 8

hmm, but that does not fit the rest of the song really, which is basically, that "we had a baby mermaid, just a year after we were married, with the face of an angel and the tail of a fish" so I guess I was wondering if it was another way to say she was giving birth, or if gravedad was "gravity" like it hit her, or something. here are the rest of the lyrics for context.

Tuvimos un serenito justo al año de casados

Con la cara de angelito pero cola de pescado

Tuvimos un serenito justo al año de casados

Con la cara de angelito pero cola de pescado

Una mañana dos soldados tiburones

Me condujeron a la corte de neptuno

Se me acusaba que en un viernes de dolores

A la sirena me comí en el desayuno

Como ninguno me creyera me mandaron fusilar

Cuando aparece mi sirena y cuenta toda la verdad

actually, "viernes de dolores" doesn't make sense either, painful fridays? - orangemangoez, Feb 28, 2010