Poem Of The Cid
Poem of the Cid (El Cantar de Mio Cid in old Spanish ) is the oldest epic poem in Spanish literature that may have been retained. Originally simply transmitted orally, the work was written up in 1207 by a certain Per Abad. This manuscript is preserved in a codex of the fourteenth century in the Biblioteca Nacional of Madrid , but has some incompleteness. The first page is missing, along with two others in the middle of the book. The poem is written in Castilian medieval ancestor of the Spanish modern (at a time when Leone and Aragonese were still literary languages). It tells the epic adventures of Rodrigo Diaz de Vivar , the conqueror of the kingdom of Valencia.
The title of the work (Cantar de Mio Cid) is a modern invention, the original name given by its creator is impossible to determine. Some Hispanics, according to the French , rather call it El Poema del Cid, arguing that this is not an epic but a poem consisting of three songs.
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