Charles Morris
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first heard Jul 2026
last heard 18 Aug
Charles Morris’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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You who came from behind sea, to see the Cid with the long beard.
We must greet each other and cut out a friendship.
God confound such friendships, cried Boucar, following his flying troops with nimble speed.
Hard behind him rode the Cid, but his horse Bavia was weary with the day's hard work, and Bukar rode a fresh and swift steed.
And thus they went, fugitive and pursuer until the ships of the Moors were at hand, when the Cid, finding that he could not reach the Moorish king with his sword, flung the weapon fiercely at him, striking him between the shoulders.
Bukar, with the mark of battle thus upon him, rode into the sea and was taken into a boat, while the Cid picked up his sword from the ground and sought his men again.
The Moorish host did not escape so well.
Set upon fiercely by the Spaniards they ran in a panic into the sea, where twice as many drowned as were slain in the battle, and of these seventeen thousand and more had fallen, while a vast host remained as prisoners.
Of the twenty nine kings who came with Bukar, seventeen were left dead upon the fields.
The chronicler uses numbers with freedom.
The Cid is his hero, and it is his task to exalt him, but the efforts of the Moors to regain Valencia and their failure to do so may be accepted as history.
In due time, however, age began to tell upon the Cid, and death came to him as it does to all.
He died in ten ninety nine from grief as the story goes, that his colleague, Alver Fanes, had suffered a defeat.
Whether from grief or age, at any rate, he died, and his wife, Himena, was left to hold the city, which for two years she gallantly did against all the power of the Moors.
Then Alfonso entered it, and finding that he could not hold it, burned the principal buildings and left it to the moors.
A century and a quarter passed before the Christians won it again.
When Alfonso left the city of the Cid, he brought with him the body of the Campeador, mounted upon his steed by Vieca, and solemnly and slowly the train wound on until the corpse of the mighty dead was brought to the cloister of the monastery of Cardena.
Here the dead hero was seated on the throne, with his sword Tisona in his hand.
And the story goes, a Katif Jew, perhaps wishing to revenge his brethren who had been given sand for gold, plucked the flowing beard of the Cid.
At this insult the hand of the corpse struck out, and the insulter was hurled to the floor.
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