It has been noted that Gonzalo de Berceo, while writing in the mester de clerecia and using as his material Latin Vitae Sanctorum, exegetic treatises and devotional works, reveals a degree of familiarity with the language and style of the epics and the mester de juglaria. My present studies on the sources of the Votos de San Millan (SMill. 362–481) indicate that Berceo had possibly gone further than the use of turns of phrase and epithets from the epics. There are, I believe, a considerable number of reminiscences of, and references to, the content as well as the stylistic form of the Cantares de Gesta. By far the greater number seem to refer to the Fernan Gonzalez epic, which has left little trace since its more learned form in the mester de clerecia, the Poema de Fernan Gonzalez (PFG), excluded the primitive epic from the consideration of most chroniclers who wrote in the vernacular. My examples of these reminiscences are taken, with one notable exception, from the Vida de San Millan 362–481, Los Votos,...