Stories 9
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SpainMay 1615The road home
Disarmed for a year, trampled by pigs, and planning a shepherd's life, I rode back towards La Mancha until I saw my village.
Nature5 min read
- ESSpainMay 1615
The enchanted boat
An empty boat on the Ebro, plainly sent by an enchanter. The millers, the river and Sancho saw it otherwise.
Nature3 min read
- ESSpainMay 1615
What I saw in the Cave of Montesinos
I went down a hundred fathoms of rope and spent three days among enchanted knights. My companions say it was half an hour.
Nature7 min read
- ESSpainMay 1615
The lions
The king's lions were on the road. I asked to have the cage opened. What followed earned me a new name.
Nature4 min read
- ESSpainAug 1614
Penance in the Sierra Morena
A ragged lover in the rocks, a penance in my shirt like Amadís, a letter to Dulcinea, and a princess come to beg my help.
Nature7 min read
- ESSpainAug 1614
The fulling mills, and Mambrino's helmet
A night of terrible hammering, an enchanted horse, a story about goats, and at dawn the golden helmet of Mambrino.
Nature7 min read
- ESSpainAug 1614
The armies that were sheep
Two vast armies met on a plain in La Mancha. I named every knight in them. Sancho named them sheep.
Nature4 min read
- ESSpainAug 1614
Marcela, and a funeral in the hills
Acorns, a speech on the Golden Age, a funeral for a poet, and a shepherdess who answered every one of her accusers.
Nature7 min read