Still, the weight of authority ascribes to certain of them an early oral tradition, and even considers some as developed out of passages taken from the old epic Cantares de gesta.
The ballads thus relegated to the peasantry and lower classes, those of the upper classes who found time for reading were accordingly thrown back upon the chronicles and the few cantares de gesta which had been reduced to writing.
The public grew weary of the repetition of the cantares and the harping on a single string.
Although the cantares of Fernan Gonzalez and the Children of Lara also lie embedded in the chronicles, I have preferred to deal with them in the chapter on the ballads, the form in which they are undoubtedly best known.
As in France, so in Spain, degeneration overtook the cantaresde gesta.
Some say in their cantares de gesta that the King then said: "Bernaldo, now is not the time for much talking, and therefore I bid you go straightway forth from my land.
With the great body of authorities upon ancient Spanish literature I do not believe that the cantares or chronicles owe anything to the ballads of any age, which seem to me wholly of popular origin.
The Chronicles But if the majority of the cantares de gesta are irreplaceable as regards their original form, we find fragments of them in the ancient chronicles of Spain.
The Cantares de Gesta But if the Castilians did not accept the matter of the chansons, they assuredly adopted their form.
Most of these were written by men of humble station, the true poets of the people, the late representatives of those juglares who had sung or recited the cantares de gesta.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "cantares" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
