It may have come down from the days of the Cid Campeador himself."
"Ahead of the Army"
W. O. Stoddard
Similarly the Spanish Cid shows traces in marked degree of the Arabic invasion of Spain.
"The Literature of Ecstasy"
Albert Mordell
The Cid parted with his Tizona in his Life-time; soe a peaceable Man, whose Eyes, like the Prophet Abijah's, are set, may well doe the same."
"Mary Powell & Deborah's Diary"
Anne Manning