Old Court Life in Spain; vol. 1
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Elliot Frances Minto Dickinson. Old Court Life in Spain; vol. 1
CHAPTER I. Introduction
CHAPTER II. Don Roderich – Gathering of the Chiefs – Trial of Witica
CHAPTER III. Don Roderich’s Perfidy
CHAPTER IV. Don Julian Goes over to the Moors
CHAPTER V. Landing of the Moors – The Eve of Battle
CHAPTER VI. Battle of Guadalete – Overthrow of Don Roderich
CHAPTER VII. Cordoba – Pelistes – Don Julian – Florinda
CHAPTER VIII. Frandina and her Son Put to Death by Alabor
CHAPTER IX. The Moors at Seville – Mousa and Abdul-asis
CHAPTER X. Abdul-asis and Egilona
CHAPTER XI. The Moors at Cordoba
CHAPTER XII. Abdurraman, Sultan of Cordoba
CHAPTER XIII. Onesinda and Kerim
CHAPTER XIV. Tragic Death of Onesinda
CHAPTER XV. Pelayo Proclaimed King by the Goths
CHAPTER XVI. Bernardo del Carpio
CHAPTER XVII. King Alonso
CHAPTER XVIII. Bernardo del Carpio’s Vow
CHAPTER XIX. Bernardo Leads the Goths against Charlemagne
CHAPTER XX. Death of Sir Roland the Brave
CHAPTER XXI. Bernardo Learns the Secret of his Birth – Joins the Moors
CHAPTER XXII. El Conde de Castila
CHAPTER XXIII. Doña Ava
CHAPTER XXIV. Marriage of Doña Ava and El Conde de Castila – Treachery of Doña Teresa
CHAPTER XXV. Doña Ava Outwits Don Sancho and Releases her Husband
CHAPTER XXVI. The Cid – 1037
CHAPTER XXVII. Don Diego Laynez and the Conde de Gormez
CHAPTER XXVIII. Don Rodrigo (the Cid) Kills the Conde de Gormez
CHAPTER XXIX. Marriage of the Cid and Doña Ximena
CHAPTER XXX. Death of King Fernando – Doña Urraca at Zamora
CHAPTER XXXI. Don Alfonso Banishes the Cid
CHAPTER XXXII. The Cid Bids Doña Ximena Farewell
CHAPTER XXXIII. Adventures of the Cid – Death and Burial
CHAPTER XXXIV. Fernando el Santo
CHAPTER XXXV. Don Pedro
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HOW great is Spain! How mighty! From the rugged mountains of the Asturias, their base washed by stormy waves, and the giddy heights of the Pyrenean precipices – an eternal barrier between rival peoples – to the balmy plains of the South, where summer ever reigns! A world within itself, with a world’s variety! Quien dice España dice todo!
And its history is as varied as the land. First, according to the legend, Hercules set his pillars, or “keys” – the ne plus ultra of land and sea – on the rock of Calpe (Gibraltar) in Europe, and on Abyla (Ceuta) in Africa. And, that no one should doubt it, he placed his temple on the water-logged flats, half-sea, half-land, behind Cadiz, long remembered by the Moors as the “district of Idols,” near the city of Gades, where Geryon dwelt, from whom Hercules “lifted” that troop of fat oxen which he was destined so long to drive wearily about the earth. In memory of all which Charles the Fifth, the great Emperor, carried Hercules’ pillars on his shield, with the proud motto, Ne plus ultra, and the city of Cadiz (Gades) still bears them as its arms.
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“The hand of God is upon him,” cried the false Ervig, whom the attendants had summoned. “Call the archbishop. He must not die unshriven.”
When consciousness returned, Wamba found himself habited as a monk, with a dark cowl over his eyes, lying on a wooden trestle, more like a bier than a resting-place for a living man. The walls around were bare and discoloured with mildew, a dim uncertain light fell on his face from a narrow window too high in the wall to reveal anything without. A terrible oppression overwhelmed him; he could scarcely open his eyes, and every limb seemed paralysed.
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