Charles Morris
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first heard Jul 2026
last heard 18 Aug
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And Mio Cid, my Cid, as he is called, with his matchless horse Bavieca, and his trenchin sword Tisona?
Towers in Spanish tale far above Christian king and Muslim caliph, as the pink of chivalry, the pearl of knighthood, the noblest and worthiest figure in all that stirring age.
Sid is an Arabic word meaning lord or chief.
The man to whom it was applied was a real personage, not a figment of fancy, though it is to poetry and romance that he owes his fame.
His story having been expanded and embellished in chronicles, epic poems, and ballads until it bears little semblance to actual history.
Yet the deeds of the man himself probably lie at the basis of all of the splendid fictions of romance.
The great poem in which his exploits were first celebrated, the famous poema del Cid, is thought to be the oldest, as it is one of the noblest in the Spanish language, and
Written probably not later than the year twelve hundred, it is of about three thousand lines in length and of such merit that its unknown author has been designated the Homer of Spain.
As it was written soon after the death of the seed,
It could not have deviated far from historic truth.
Chief among the prose works is the Chronicle of the Cid.
Chronica del famoso Cavalier Cid Ruid Dies
Which, with additions from the poem, was charmingly rendered in English by the poet Southy.
Whose production is a prose poem in itself?
Such are the chief sources of our knowledge of the seed.
An active, stirring figure, full of the spirit of medievalism, whose story seems to bring back to us the living features of the age in which he flourished, a brave and daring knight, rousing the jealousy of nobles and kings by his valiant deeds, now banished and now recalled, now fighting against the Muslims, now with them, now for his own hand, and in the end winning himself a realm and dying a king without the name.
Such is the man whose story we propose to tell.
This hero of romance was born about the year ten forty at Bivar, a little village near Borgos, his father being Diego Lenes, a man of gentle birth, his mother, Teresa Rodriguez, daughter of the governor of the Astorias.
He is often called Rodrigo de Bivar from his birthplace, but usually Rodrigo Diaz or Rui Diaz, as his name is given in the chronicle.
While still a boy, the future prowess of the Cid was indicated.
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