Se pretende subrayar y ampliar los antecedentes que posee el núcleo amoroso del cuento que Cervantes ponen en el Quijote en boca del capitán Ruy Pérez de Viedma en el repertorio de la narrativa tradicional. Se señala su contigüidad temático-narrativa con el esquema de ‘la hija convertida del padre ogro’ y se lo relaciona con la intensidad conflictiva con que Europa vivía por entonces la cuestión religiosa. This article pretends to highlight and extend the antecedents of the loving main plot of this tale by Cervantes, appearing in the Quixote in mouth of captain Ruy Pérez de Viedma, on the repertory of traditional narrative. Its thematic and narrative continuity with the scheme “converted daughter of the ogre father” is underlined, and it is shown as related with the conflictive intensity with which Europe was living the religious matter in those days.