Cantar de Mio Cid
El Cantar de Mio Cid
A great book. Written AD 1200*, in Old Spanish
* An approximate date: when this work was composed or first set down isn’t known exactly.
El Cantar de mio Cid, or El Poema de mio Cid, is an anonymous 12th-century cantar de gesta and the oldest preserved Castilian epic poem. Based on a true story, it tells of the deeds of the Castilian hero and knight in medieval Spain Rodrigo Díaz de Vivar—known as El Cid—and takes place during the eleventh century, an era of conflicts in the Iberian Peninsula between the Kingdom of Castile and various Taifa principalities of Al-Andalus. It is considered a national epic of Spain.
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Where it is set
- Spain
Spain
it tells of the deeds of the Castilian hero and knight in medieval Spain Rodrigo Díaz de Vivar Source: Wikipedia, reviewed
- Valencia
Spain
El Cid defends the city of Valencia, defeating King Chufa ibn Tashfin of the Almoravids. Source: Wikipedia, reviewed
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What it draws on
The Song of RolandGreat book
Turold, AD 1100
Spain's epic answers France's: another Christian hero on the frontier with the Moors, told with the same set phrases, epithets and battle scenes. But the Cid is a loyal vassal unjustly exiled who wins his way back, not a martyr.
Source: Wikipedia, Cantar de mio Cid
“The Poem of the Cid, for example, echoes the plot devices used in The Song of Roland epic.” Read it there
