Oral-Formulaic Theory: Annotated Bibliography

Ramón Menéndez Pidal. "Dos poetas en el Cantar de Mío Cid." Romania, 82:145-200. Rpt. in his En torno al Poema del Cid. Barcelona: Editora y Distribuidora Hispano Americana, 1963. pp. 107-62.

Assumes two poets behind the making of the Cid, the earlier from San Esteban de Gormaz and the later from Medinaceli. Argues that the former, composing near the time of the historical Cid, was better able to preserve facts, while the latter did not know the historical background and so filled in with his imagination.
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