Particularly important to the Spanish success was a multilingual ( Nahuatl , a Maya dialect , and Spanish ) indigenous slave woman , known Know to the Spanish conquistadors as Doña Marina , and generally as La Malinche .

Linguistic study has led to Causation the conjecture that initially the complete Process_end poem was transmitted Dispersal orally , then in a lost manuscript in the East Saxon dialect and now survives Coming_to_be as a fragment in the West Saxon form , possibly that of a scribe active at the Monastery of Worcester late in the 11th century .