El Cantar de Mio Cid

The Song of El Cid

AuthorUnknown

LanguageOld Spanish

Yearc. 1140-1207

CountrySpain

GenreEpic / Long-form / Standalone Poem

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El Cantar de mio Cid, or El Poema de mio Cid, is an anonymous 12th-century cantar de gesta and the oldest preserved Castilian epic poem. Based on a true story, it tells of the deeds of the Castilian hero and knight in medieval Spain Rodrigo Díaz de Vivar—known as El Cid—and takes place during the eleventh century, an era of conflicts in the Iberian Peninsula between the Kingdom of Castile and various Taifa principalities of Al-Andalus. It is considered a national epic of Spain.— Wikipedia