When the leader of the Almoravids, Yusuf ibn Tashfin, “sent letters to [Rodrigo] strictly forbidding him to dare to enter the land of Valencia,” Rodrigo “spoke of Yusuf in terms of the strongest contempt,” and sent his own letters all over the region, advertising his willingness to meet an Almoravid army of any size in battle, and settle things one way or the other.
