Title: A noble and riveting character
Review: El Cid begins his life's journey as the nouveau riche aristocrat, Don Rodrigo de Vivar. He is constantly snubbed by the other aristocratic families, despite being the King's greatest knight, for you see, his family was only knighted a generation before! Finally after enduring floods of insults, Don Rodrigo reaches the limits of his patience and tugs upon a rival's beard. This unseemly behavior, so tame by today's standards, dooms the Don to exile in the land of the Godless Moors. There, the epic takes off as the Don becomes known as El Cid (the Lord) after conquering the Moorish regions for the King of Castile (his approach to trying to escape his sentence of exile). A must read! (Search carefully for this book as it is out of print and is often costly, tho it need not be so.)
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