Medieval Spanish epic : mythic roots and ritual language /
This book finds origins of key parts of nearly all the medieval Spanish epics in an ancient myth. The myth of the initiation of the young warrior, shown by Georges Dumezil to be fundamental to the belief systems of widely distributed Indo-European peoples, was variously adapted to shape the action o...
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University Park, Pa. :
Penn. State Univ. Press,
©1998.
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| Series: | Penn State studies in Romance literatures
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