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title: "The Poem of the Cid"
type: Book
date: 2020-06-14
rating: 5
author: "Paul Blackburn"
genre:
year: 1966
status: Finished
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The actual _plot_ seems much less, uh, engaging than the big Greek triumvirate, but I found myself enchanted by the Cid's epithets: "he who was born at the right time", "he who girded his sword at the right time."