Jimena realizes the nobility of her husband and joins him, but returns to the convent with their two children, when he goes into battle against ben yussuf. I grew up with this beautiful story, i remember when i was a kid my grandfather gave me a book full of many legendary stories. Also the people in castile were not happy that they were being led by a king from leon. This is an epic poem of a little over 3700 lines as it has reached us several hundred lines being missing, the author of which, as. He was born in vivar del cid, a town near the city of burgos. Castilian knight famed for his heroic feats during the reconquista. Originally published in spanish as mio cid campeador by compania. He was born in vivar, a town near the city of burgos. However the evidence available to us does tell a different story. The historic, literary, legendary and mythical cid campeador. Song of my cid, spanish epic poem of the mid12th century, the earliest surviving monument of spanish literature and generally considered one of the great medieval epics and one of the masterpieces of spanish literature. Selden rose and leonard bacon, and published in berkeley, california, by the university of california press in the year 1919 as part of the series entitled semicentennial publications of the university of california. Campidoctor fuhrte rodrigo urkundlich belegt schon. Merwins introduction to the mentor classic version.
I have not tried to tell the story of the poem, but to discover the truth of the mans life. The minstrels travelled from town to town singing and telling stories and poems. Content was the great campeador, and his men were of good cheer. He used this army to create his own fiefdom in valencia. In several variations of the story, the dead rodrigo and his knights win a. The whole combination cid campeador is first documented ca.
He was a brave general that lead his country to victory. Doctoris or song of the campeador, a set of latin verses celebrating the. Breaking the sexual harassment story this helped ignite a movement, atomic habits. Such elevation made him also a legendary figure, due to the epic poem written in the 12th century, and several versions that followed. Moreover, i have treated the story of the outrage of corpes as false, in the first place. The poema is the ultimate ragstoriches story, showing that. He took command of a combined christian and moorish army.