The Annotated Chronicle of El Cid ~ Book VII ~ Chapter XXII


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El Cid
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Alvar Fanez this while was in the field writing and taking account of the spoil: but the tents and arms and precious garments were so many that they cannot be told, and the horses were beyond all reckoning; they ran about the field, and there was no body to take them, and the Moors of the land got something by that great overthrow.

Nevertheless so many horses were taken that the Campeador had to his share of the good ones a thousand and five hundred.

Well might the others have good store when he had so many.

And my Cid won in this battle from King Yucef, his good sword Tizona, which is to say, the firebrand.

The tent of the King of Morocco, which was supported by two pillars wrought with gold, he gave order not to be touched, for he would send it to Alfonso the Castillian.

The Bishop Don Hieronymo, that perfect one with the shaven crown, he had his fill in that battle, fighting with both hands; no one could tell how many he slew.

Great booty came to him, and moreover the Cid sent him the tithe of his fifth.

Glad were the Christian folk in Valencia for the great booty which they had gotten, and glad was Dona Ximena and her daughters, and glad were all those ladies who were married.


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