EL CANTAR DEL MIO CID

El Cantar de mio Cid

El Cantar de mio Cid is an epic feat that anonymous tells stories of heroic deeds inspired freely in the last years of the life of the Castilian knight Rodrigo Diaz the Campeador . This is the first comprehensive narrative works of Spanish literature in a Romance language , and is noted for the high literary value of his style.

internal Structure

El Cantar de mio Cid is the theme of the complex process of recovering lost honor by the hero , whose restoration implies increased to the baseline honor.

The poem begins with the banishment of the Cid, first ground of shame , after being accused of theft. This also implies dishonor be disinherited or possessions Vivar and deprived of parental rights of his family.

After the conquest of Valencia, thanks to one of his arm , his cunning and prudence, gets the royal pardon and thus a new inheritance, the Lordship of Valencia, which in ancient solar binds and restored .

But anecdotally, thereby further drop in honor of the Cid, due to contempt of infants Cid 's daughters , who are humiliated , whipped , badly injured and abandoned in the oak grove Corpes occurs .

This fact is according to the medieval right of repudiation of such business by Carrion . So the Cid decides plead inability of these marriages contrast, the Cid's daughters CONCERT families with kings of Spain .

external structure

The editors of the text, divided into three songs . It could reflect the three sessions in which the author considers it desirable that the minstrel recites the deed . And confirm the text seems to separate a part of another with the words: " heres conpieça the exploits of the Cid of Bivar ," and another later when he says " . Deste sing The songs are ending heres "