A cantar de gesta is the Spanish equivalent of the Old French medieval chanson de geste or `songs of heroic deeds`. The most important cantares de gesta of Castile were: Smaller importance had the Mainete, the Cantar del Cerco de Zamora and others. However, only the Cantar de Mio Cid, the Cantar de Rodrigo and a few verses of the Cantar de Ronce.....