Fernán González, el usurero míticoentre la epopeya y el cuento
ISSN: 1137-8905
Year of publication: 2011
Issue Title: Epica, folclore y literatura comparada: nuevas perspectivas
Issue: 25
Pages: 295-350
Type: Article
More publications in: Revista de Poética Medieval
Abstract
The legend of the founding of Castile by Count Fernan Gonzalez is a variant of the folkloric motif of the gift that is given by a crafty character to another naive character, who must be compensated afterwards with another gift of much greater value. The motif involves other many folk and literary tales, from different times and traditions. We compare the Castilian story with tales from the Hebrew Bible and Sephardic, Persians, ndowe texts, and also tales from the Fang of Equatorial Guinea, together with international stories such as ATU 821B, ATU 425, ATU 500, among others.