Professor Nora Berend

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You're Dead to Me · El Cid (Radio Edit) · 10 Jul 2026 podcast

The text also then deprives the Muslims of the victory of retaking Valencia.

Because according to this, Rodrigo wanted to be buried at San Pedro de Cardena.

So immediately after he died, so after this victory, they take the corpse to be buried and everybody wants to participate.

So the whole town is empty because all the inhabitants go to bury him in San Pedro.

So the Muslims can take the city.

So it's not an evacuation.

Just one line about the horse, because according to the same text, the horse is then taken very good care of at the monastery.

So he has this very long, nice life, and they make sure that there are lots of fillies, so his line is perpetuated.

Because this is... You want some of it.

But he was a monk, I'm afraid.

What I think is very intriguing is not simply how Rodrigo Díaz was transformed into El Cid, but how that mythical construct then became a kind of mascot and rallying cry for both the right and the left.

And even, of course, today, now, the new right and far right again uses El Cid as a kind of prototype white supremacist fighting against Muslims and migrants.

But very strangely, he's also been picked up as a model guy for peaceful coexistence and multiculturalism.

So somebody who lived together with and learned from Muslims.

So I think this is a very interesting mixture.

And of course, the left-wing use of the SID goes back to,

already to early modern times when this legend developed about him enforcing this oath so that the nobles would not accept Alfonso VI until he swears he had nothing to do with his brother's murder, Sancho's murder.

That turns out

into a kind of person who can hold kings to justice, someone who's against tyranny.

And so in early modern times, he's already represented in this way.

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