Arnela was a large female goatherder originally from Andorra. She grew up not knowing her parents, often sleeping in stables with animals. Arnela was mocked from a young age because of her size, she was a very large, broad woman. She worked at a tavern, where after enduring continuous insults she purposefully spilled food and drink on a customer, who soonafter engaged her in fighting. Arnela was imprisoned, but broke out and escaped to the Pyrenees mountains where she officially started herding goats.