Note 27 — FURNITURE
Reading edition
The Poem of the Cid tells us of the two chests, covered with red guadamecí, which the hero filled with sand to cheat the Jewish money-lenders:—
“Con vuestro consejo bastir quiero dos archas. Incamosla d'arena, cá bien serán pesadas, Cubiertas de guadamecí é bien enclavadas; Los guadamecís bermeios é los clavos bien dorados.”
Nevertheless, the “coffer of the Cid” at Burgos (see p. 12) does not appear to have been thus fitted.