SOURCE: Smith, Colin. “The Variant Version of the Start of the Poema de mio Cid.” La Corónica 20, no. 2 (spring 1992): 32-41.
In the following essay, Smith discusses the faulty internal logic of the twelve lines that have been suggested as a variant of the opening of the Cantar de mio Cid.
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