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Cantar de gesta

A cantar de gesta is a genre of medieval Spanish poetry, analogous to the chanson de geste in Old French. Cantares de gesta incorporate aspects of epic poetry.

The most important cantares de gesta[according to whom?] of Castile was:

Smaller importance had the Mainete, the Cantar del Cerco de Zamora and others. However, only the Cantar de Mio Cid, the Cantar de Rodrigo and a few verses of the Cantar de Roncesvalles have been preserved in written form. The philologues have reconstructed other passages of the lost Castilian epic from fragments turned into prose in chronicles, where they served as sources of information.

The characteristics of the Spanish cantares de gesta are:

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