21
I use the word «themes» in its traditional sense. Lord's use of it to denote what others call motifs (e. g. the assembly, the arrival of letters) seems to me an unhelpful innovation.
22
«Religious Motifs in the Early Spanish Epic», RHM, 36 (1970-71 [publ. 1974]), 165-72. Cf. Thomas R. Hart's study of, among other things, the influence of the ecclesiastical tradition of figura: «Hierarchical Patterns in the Cantar de Mio Cid», Romanic Review, 53 (1962), 161-73.
23
Deyermond and Chaplin, «Folk-Motifs».
24
«La épica medieval española y la "estructura trifuncional" de los indoeuropeos», Cuadernos Hispanoamericanos, 95 (1974), 554-71.
25
«Theme and Myth in the Poema de Mio Cid». Romania, 83 (1962). 348-69. Cf. Lord, Singer of Tales, pp. 200-02, on mythic patterns in Beowulf, the Iliad, and Gilgamesh.
26
Rhys Carpenter, Folk Tale, Fiction and Saga in the Homeric Epics, Sather Classical Lectures, 20 (Berkeley: Univ. of California Press, 1946, rpt. 1962), pp. 74-76.
27
Von Richthofen, Estudios épicos medievales, pp. 130-34.
28
«Folk-Motifs», p. 45, n. 22.
29
PCG, chap. 836, p. 511a. Cf Cr1344, chap. 497, pp. 385-86. The MS of the versión vulgar of EE used by Carola Reig, El cantar de Sancho II y cerco de Zamora, RFE, anejo 37 (Madrid: CSIC, 1947), pp. 248-49, differs from Menéndez Pidal's PCG text, but not in essentials.
30
William J. Entwistle, «On the Carmen de morte Sanctii regis», BH, 30 (1928), 204-19; Martínez, «Tres leyendas heroicas», pp. 174-76. Martínez discusses Najererise's treatment of the epic tradition of Sancho II on pp. 143-74 of his article: the episode of the murder is dealt with on pp. 149-50. On pp. 140-43, Martínez points to interesting resemblances between Sancho II, La condesa traidora, and the legend of Covadonga. Chalon, like a number of earlier scholars, denies that a Latin poem was used by the author of Najerense (pp. 280-81), but he seems unaware of Entwistle's study.