Resumen de Las obras de las crónicas de Alfonso III: Crónica de Alfonso II sobre el final de los reyes godos, Leyenda de Covadonga, Crónica de Sebastián de Salamanca y Crónica de Ordoño I
The process by which the Chronicle of Alfonso III was composed is still unresolved despite the various proposals that have been put forward within the historiography of chronicles since the late nineteenth century; here, after an analysis of the content and editing of the work, a hypothesis that primarily seeks a deep and innovative thinking on the subject is presented. According to this, the chronicles of Alfonso III (Rotensis and Ad Sebastianum) are the result of a long process of textual composition and ideological reformulation during the ninth century in the Kingdom of Asturias. In both texts we can perceive several older chronicles that were joined sequentially as text blocks to compose the Chronicle of Ordoño I, the direct antecedent of the twin chronicles of the Great King. Among those historiographical works there are two written at the beginning of the ninth century during the reign of King Alfonso II: the Chronicle of Alfonso II about the end of the Gothic kings and the Chronicle of Sebastian of Salamanca, with an addition from the time of King Ramiro I (r. 842–850). Besides these, we identify the Legend of Covadonga, an oral tradition that was put in writing in the reign of King Ordoño I (r. 850–866).
