García's capture by trickery, long imprisonment and burial in great pomp made him a favorite of epic poets, and by the middle of the 12th century there was already a body of such poetic works.
A captura de García mediante engano, o longo encarceramento e o pomposo funeral, convertérono no favorito dos poetas épicos, e para mediados do século XII xa debía existir un bo número destas obras poéticas.