Note note p. 117, l. 22 — POESÍAS DEL SIGLO XVIII
Reading edition
Page 117.—l. 22. A considerable number of the ballads deal with the story of the greatest of the old Spanish heroes, Rodrigo Diaz de Bivar, El Cid († 1099). The present one is interesting as giving a picture of a wedding in high life in the fifteenth or the sixteenth century. Cf. the translation of Lockhart, l. c., p. 48.