Update on El Cid

Just a quick update on the post I did about El Cid. A recent article from ABC, a major Spanish newspaper, states that the Tizona of the National Army Museum (Museo del Ejército) that supposedly belonged to El Cid has been declared a misnomer. It turns out that it is from the same era, so it does have historical value, but it's not El Cid's. Which means that El Cid's real sword is still drifting out there somewhere, or is perhaps lost forever. We may never know.

And a whole tourist industry must revamp its line of letter openers to "used to be known as the Tizona of El Cid."