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Updated: May 5, 2025
The Zornozas boast an escutcheon which is embellished with a band, a number of wolves, and a legend whose import I do not recall. Indeed, wolves occur in all the escutcheons of the Baroja, Alzate and Zornoza families, in so far as I have been able to discover, and I take them to be more or less authentic. We have wolves passant, wolves rampant, and wolves mordant.
The fate of one of them has been described by Captain Rigel of Baden. As early as October, they fought against the Spaniards at Zornoza, and at the pillage of Portugalete first became acquainted with the barbarous customs of this terrible civil war. The most implacable hatred, merciless rage, the assassination of prisoners, plunder, destruction, and incendiarism, equally distinguished both sides.
I have unearthed three family myths: the Goni myth, the Zornoza myth, and the Alzate myth.
She had seen the chapel of San Miguel on Aralar, and the cave in which the dragon lived, and a document wherein Charles V. granted to Juan de Goni the privilege of renaming his house the Palace of San Miguel, as well as of adding a dragon to his coat of arms, besides a cross in a red field, and a broken chain. The Zornoza myth was handed down through my paternal grandmother of that name.
When that time comes, the author who has been born there, will not prefer to hail from some hamlet buried in the mountains, rather than from the capital of Guipuzcoa. But I myself prefer it. I have no city, and I hold myself to be strictly extra-urban. My father, Serafin Baroja y Zornoza, was a mining engineer, who wrote books both in Castilian and Basque, and he, too, came from San Sebastian.
I am glad that I was born near the sea, because it suggests freedom and change. My paternal grandmother, Dona Concepcion Zornoza, was a woman of positive ideas and somewhat eccentric. She was already old when I knew her. She had mortgaged several houses which she owned in the city in order to build the house which was occupied by us in La Zurriola.
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