The Poem of the Cid - Paperback

One of the greatest works of Spanish literature, this eight-hundred-year-old saga narrates the legendary exploits of the soldier-adventurer Ruy D az of Bivar, known as El Cid--"the Lord"--and his part in the long struggle between Christianity and Islam. The poem recounts the adventures of a broad cast of characters: the Cid; his peerless steed, Babieca, and his two famous swords, Colada and Tiz n; his wife, Do a Ximena, and his two daughters, Do a Elvira and Do a Sol, who found sanctuary with Abbot Don Sancho in the monastery of San Pedro de Carde a during the Cid's exile; and the black-hearted princes of Carri n, Diego and Fernando Gonz lez. This powerful epic sings of universal human values and failures, loyalty and betrayal.