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The Mocedades de Rodrigo is the name given to a late, anonymous Castilian ''cantar de gesta'', composed around 1360, that relates the origins and exploits of the youth of the legendary hero El Cid (Rodrigo Díaz de Vivar). There are 1164 surviving verses,〔Stefano Arata, "Prologue" (epigraph "The Medieval Phase of the Legend", pp. 36-39) to ''Las Mocedades del Cid (First Comedy)'', editorial, prologue and notes by Stefano Arata, preliminary study by Aurora Egido, Barcelona, Critic, 1996 (Classic Library, 59), p. 37.〕 preceded by an initial prose fragment. The only codex that contains the work is a manuscript from 1400〔Juan Victorio, in the "Introduction" to his edition of the ''Mocedades de Rodrigo'' (Madrid, Espasa-Calpe, 1982, p. 54.), comment: 〕 that is kept in the National Library of Paris.〔(''ms. espagnol'', number 12 )〕 The text that has reached us lacks a title, and critics have variously titled the work ''Mocedades de Rodrigo'' or ''del Cid'' (The youthful deeds of Rodrigo, the Cid), ''Refundición de las Mocedades de Rodrigo'' (A Recasting of the Youthful Deeds of Rodrigo-Amistead), ''Cantar de Rodrigo y el Rey Fernando'' (Sing of Rodrigo and King Fernando-Menéndez Pidal) and ''Crónica rimada del Cid'' (The Rhyming Chronicle of El Cid-Bourland).〔Bourland titled the ''Mocedades de Rodrigo'' as ''Rimed Chronicle of the Cid'' in his edition "''The Rimed Chronicle of the Cid'' (El cantar de Rodrigo)", in ''Revue Hispanique'', 24, 1911, pp. 310-357. Menéndez Pidal adopted ''Song of Rodrigo and King Fernando'' into his edition in ''Relics of the Spanish Epic Poetry'', Madrid, Espasa-Calpe, 1951, pp. 257-289. Samuel G. Armistead, on his part, proposed to title his ''A Recasting of the Youthful Deeds of Rodrigo'' in "The ''Mocedades de Rodrigo'' and Neo-individualist Theory", ''Hispanic Review'', 46 (1978), pp. 313-327. See also the section: Modern editions〕 ==Plot== After the initial character genealogy, in which the ancestry of the hero is recounted, the poem tells how the young Rodrigo killed an enemy of his father, the count Don Goméz, himself father of Jimena Díaz. In order to make amends for his guilt, King Ferdinand orders him to marry Jimena. However the hero refuses, in a common folkloric motif of postponement of an obligation through the pursuit a difficult and long-lasting mission, until he has won five battles. Although the five battles had remained vague in earlier versions of ''The Mocedades de Rodrigo'',〔Alberto Montaner Frutos, "The ''Gesta de las mocedades de Rodrigo *'' (''Heroic Deeds of the Youth of Rodrigo'') and the ''Crónica particular del Cid'' (''Specific Chronicle of El Cid'')", in V. Beltrán (ed.), ''Acts of the First Congress of the Hispanic Association of Medieval Literature'' (Santiago de Compostela, 1985), Barcelona, PPU, 1988, pp. 431-444. ISBN 84-7665-251-8〕 in this particular text, they can be considered to be the victory against the Moor Burgos de Ayllón, the victory against the champion of Aragon for the possession of Calahorra, the defense of Castile against the conspiracy of the treacherous counts, the battle against five allied Moors and the moving of the seat of the bishop of Palencia.〔Montaner Frutos (1988) stated that the *''Gesta'' and the ''Mocedades'' differ in some events of the structure, with the five pitched battles of the earlier gesta being distributed into later versions.〕 At this point, the king of France, the Emperor of the Holy Roman Empire and the Pope demand a humiliating tribute from Castile, amongst the items demanded in tribute are fifteen noble virgin maidens each year. Faced with this situation, Rodrigo encourages King Fernando to conquer France and together, finally, they will triumph over the coalition formed by the count of Savoy, the King of France, the Emperor and the Pope. After this tremendous victory and in the middle of the negotiations over the surrender, the manuscript ends.〔Alan Deyermond, ''History of Spanish Literatura, vol. 1: The Middle Ages'', Barcelona, Ariel, 2001 (first edition 1973), p. 94 and Miguel Pérez Rosado, ''History of Hispanic Literatura. Middle Ages. The Medieval Poetry. The Epic.'' Apdo. 5. ()〕 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Mocedades de Rodrigo」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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