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  bernardo del carpio - Article and Reference from OnPedia.com
Bernardo del Carpio is a legendary hero of medieval Spanish legend, comparable to El Cid, thought with less historical evidence of his actual existence.
Bernardo was said to be the son of Sancho, the Count of Saldana and Dona Jimena (Alfonso II's sister).
In the opening of Don Quixote, Cervantes has the Don especially admiring Bernardo because he crushed Roland with his arms alone, although the context is clear that Don Quixote is placing too much credence in the ridiculous stories of romance.
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 Bernardo del Carpio - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Bernardo del Carpio is a legendary hero of medieval Spanish legend, comparable to El Cid, though with less historical evidence of his actual existence.
1380) mentions Bernardo del Carpio in one of his cantigas, which combines the theme of the good life in Castile with a series of loores, or lyric paeans, to a series of Greek, Roman, Biblical, chivalric, and Arab heroes.
In the opening of Don Quixote, Cervantes has the Don especially admiring Bernardo because he crushed Roland with his arms alone, although the context is clear that Don Quixote is placing too much credence in the fantastic stories of romance.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Bernardo_del_Carpio   (286 words)

  
 alfonso ii of asturias - Article and Reference from OnPedia.com
Alfonso II (759-842, king 791), Alfonso I's reputed grandson, bears the name of "the Chaste." The Arab writers who speak of the Spanish kings of the north-west as the Beni-Altons, appear to recognize them as a royal stock derived from Alfonso I. The events of his reign are in reality unknown.
Poets of a later generation invented the story of the secret marriage of his sister Ximena with Sancho, count of Saldana, and the feats of their son Bernardo del Carpio.
Bernardo is the hero of a cantar de gesta (chanson de geste) written to please the anarchical spirit of the nobles.
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 Bernardo Bertalucci   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-24)
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 Bernardo del Carpio   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-24)
Bernardo was said to be the son Sancho the Count of Saldana and Dona (Alfonso II's sister).
In the opening of Don Quixote Cervantes has the Don especially admiring Bernardo he crushed Roland with his arms alone the context is clear that Don Quixote placing too much credence in the ridiculous of romance.
The Legend of Bernardo Del Carpio from Chronicle to Drama (Scripta Humanistica, 47)
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 Carpio - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Bernardo del Carpio, legendary hero of medieval Spanish legend
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 Alfonso VI of Castile - Biocrawler   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-24)
He is alternately the oppressor and the victim of heroic and self-willed nobles — the idealized types of the patrons for whom the jongleurs and troubadours sang.
He is the hero of a cantar de gesta which, like all but a very few of the early Spanish songs, like the cantar of Bernardo del Carpio and the Infantes of Lara, exists now only in the fragments incorporated in the chronicle of Alfonso the Wise or in ballad form.
They are the answer to the poet of the nobles who represented the king as having submitted to taking a degrading oath at the hands of Ruy Diaz de Vivar (El Cid), in the church of Santa Gadea at Burgos, and as having then persecuted the brave man who defied him.
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 Bernardo Broitman   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-24)
But Bernardo then joined up with the Moors himself, hoping to 5: lbuena published El Bernardo, an account of Bernardo 's exploits.
It was once considered one of the ma 7:, Cervantes has the Don especially admiring Bernardo because he crushed Roland with his arms alone, al 11: David Burton, ''The Legend of Bernardo del Carpio: from Chronicle to Drama''.
Paul Bernardo 1: '''Paul Kenneth Bernardo ''' (he later assumed the name '''Paul Teale''') (3: ears in prison) Homolka agreed to testify against Bernardo in his murder trial.
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 HighBeam Encyclopedia - Bernardo del Carpio   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-24)
BERNARDO DEL CARPIO [Bernardo del Carpio], hero of medieval Spanish legend.
He was supposedly the nephew of Alfonso II of Asturias, against whom he strove to secure his father's release from prison.
Spanish legend has him a counterpart of the French Roland and in some versions the slayer of Roland at Roncesvalles.
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 Bernardo Del Carpio   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-24)
1) " Bernardo" -- in the term Bernardo Del Carpio
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This symbol is sometimes called the nabla operator, after the Greek word for a kind of harp with a similar shape (with related words in Aramaic and Hebrew).
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 AllRefer.com - Bernardo del Carpio (Spanish And Portuguese History, Biography) - Encyclopedia
AllRefer.com - Bernardo del Carpio (Spanish And Portuguese History, Biography) - Encyclopedia
Bernardo del Carpio, Spanish And Portuguese History, Biographies
Bernardo del Carpio[bernAr´dO del kAr´pyO] Pronunciation Key, hero of medieval Spanish legend.
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 Chapter Roland <i>to</i> Romance of the Rose of R by Brewer's Readers Handbook   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-24)
The cleft “Roldan,” in the summit of a high mountain in the kingdom of Valencia, was so called because it was made by a single back-stroke of Roldan’s sword.
The character is in two Spanish romances, authors unknown—Bernardo del Carpio and Roncesvalles.
This book [Rinaldo de Montalban], and all others written on French matters, shall be deposited in some dry place…except one called Bernardo del Carpio, and another called Roncivalles, which shall certainly accompany the rest on the bonfire.—Cervantes: Don Quixote, I. i.
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 A BRIEF HISTORY OF MEDIEVAL SPAIN
The opposing armies met at Tebar del Pinar in 1090, and although the Cid was wounded in the battle, his army was completely successful.
The three favorites of medieval Spanish romance, says Senor Lafuente, Bernardo del Carpio, Fernan Gonzalez, and the Cid, have this at least in common, that they were all at war with their lawful sovereigns, and fought their battles independently of the crown.
The Castilians of the Middle Ages were so devoted to their independence, so proud of their Fueros, such admirers of personal prowess, that they were disposed to welcome with national admiration those heroes who sprang from the people, who defied and were ill-treated by their kings.
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 Burton (1988) The legend of Bernardo del Carpio from chronicle to drama
Burton (1988) The legend of Bernardo del Carpio from chronicle to drama
Bernardo del Carpio (Legendary character) in literature; Cueva, Juan de la
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 Bernardo del Caprio
Lope de Vega wrote several plays around his exploits.
Del Carpio is credited with having defeated Roland at Roncesvalles.
Article "Bernardo del Caprio" created on 21 March 1999; last modified on 10 April 2001 (Revision 2).
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 Find in a Library: The legend of Bernardo del Carpio from chronicle to drama
Find in a Library: The legend of Bernardo del Carpio from chronicle to drama
The legend of Bernardo del Carpio from chronicle to drama
Bernardo del Carpio (Personaje legendario) en literatura
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 Infoplease Search: bernardo
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(Almanac - People) Bertolucci, Bernardo actor Birthplace: Parma, Italy Born: 3/16/40 Information Please® Database,...
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 Historia verdadera del valiente Bernardo del Carpio (in MARION)   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-24)
Historia verdadera del valiente Bernardo del Carpio (in MARION)
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