Note 255 — Chapter VIII
Reading edition
The portion of the Chronicle of the Cid from which I have taken the extract is among the portions which least resemble the corresponding parts of the General Chronicle. It is in Chap. 91; and from Chap. 88 to Chap. 93 there is a good deal not found in the parallel passages in the General Chronicle, (1604, f. 224, etc.,) though, where they do resemble each other, the phraseology is still frequently identical. The particular passage I have selected was, I think, suggested by the first lines that remain to us of the “Poema del Cid”; and perhaps, if we had the preceding lines of that poem, we should be able to account for yet more of the additions to the Chronicle in this passage. The lines I refer to are as follows:—
De los sos oios tan fuertes · mientre lorando Tornaba la cabeza, · e estabalos catando. Vio puertas abiertas · e uzos sin cañados, Alcándaras vacias, · sin pielles e sin mantos, E sin falcones e sin · adtores mudados. Sospiró mio Cid, ca · mucho avie grandes cuidados.
Other passages are quite as obviously taken from the poem.