Babieca, the horse, and the Cid
Very rarely in life when someone gives a gift to another person, gives them the option to choose. Well, most of the time it’s a surprise. However, in this case, the opposite happened. This is how the narrative of the History of the Babieca Horse begins.
Babieca was a gift that the godfather of El Cid, a religious named Peyre Pringos or Pedro el Gordo, made his godson. In fact, it happened that one day, Pedro El Gordo took a boy named Rodrigo Díaz de Vivar to the monastery where he lived.
The religious said to his godson: “Choose the colt that you like the most”. This is how Rodrigo chose a particularly ugly specimen, so his godfather, disappointed, exclaimed: “that’s a Babieca”. Put another way, a horse of scant presence, weak and clumsy. However, with the passage of time it would become a historical horse.
Babieca was the legendary horse that the literary sources, from the Cantar de mio Cid (written around 1200), and the later tradition, attributed to the Castilian noble Rodrigo Díaz known as El Cid Campeador, who came to dominate practically all the east of the Iberian Peninsula at the end of the 11th century.
Before being nominated in Cantar de mio Cid, the mare of the Castilian hero was characterized without name in the Carmen Campidoctoris (composed c. 1190) as a North African horse bought for a thousand dinars, of great agility and speed, something especially valued in the war horses, which were sturdy, heavy and relatively slow.
However, in the same Song to Babieca is presented, after the capture of Valencia and when the Cid will receive his wife and daughters, as a trophy of war that the subsequent chronological proscriptions of the poem. They specifically attribute to the victory over the king of the Taifa of Seville.
According to the Legend of Cardeña, elaborated around the Monastery of San Pedro de Cardeña around 1270. It was the horse on which the wife of El Cid mounted his corpse. Making his enemies believe he was still alive. Afterwards, nobody rode on Babieca again. He died two years later at the unusual age of forty. They buried the horse somewhere in the Monastery of San Pedro de Cardeña. Ten kilometers from Burgos, in the municipality of Castrillo del Val and next to the towns of Cardeñajimeno.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/El_Cid
https://karibovee.com/famous-horse-partners-in-history-el-cid-and-babieca
https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Babieca
https://www.tispain.com/2013/03/babieca-el-caballo-feo-del-cid-campeador.html
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