Tuesday, January 18, 2011

Teaching El Cid

Today I'm teaching Spain's only surviving epic poem about the Medieval hero named el Cid. There is this touching passage where el Cid is saying good-bye to his beloved wife and two little daughters. I'm still kind of weak from my sickness, so I found it hard not to cry in class while I was reading the following passage to the students:The Cid, the nobly bearded, reached down unto the twain,
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