Sobre la materia carolingia en laGran conquista de Ultramary enla Crónica fragmentaria

Abstract

This article examines the relationship between the Carolingian legends found in the Gran conquista de Ultramar and the Crónica fragmentaria, a complex problem of literary history that, with few execptions, has been ignored by critics. It deals with two works from different periods that have strong textual similarities. Because they are unrelated, this raises the question of how we should account for their similarities. The analysis of the oldest descriptions of the Gran conquista de Ultramar and a literary reference found in the Carolingian legends leads to the conclusion that this material was added in a later reworking. Approaching the relationship of the two works from this new perspective, we can see that the Gran conquista de Ultramar derived its Carolingian legends from the preparatory materials of the Crónica fragmentaria, which reinforces the hypothesis of interpolation and gives us an insight into fourteenth-century creative processes. Finally the article proposes a date — c. 1390 — for the arrival of the Carolingian material in Castile; this conclusion makes possible a contextualized reading of both works. This date represents a watershed both in history and in the reception of the Gran conquista de Ultramar.

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