Chaucer's 'Wariangles."

Author / Editor
Harrison, Thomas P.

Title
Chaucer's 'Wariangles."

Published
Notes and Queries 199 (1954): 189.

Description
Offers historical "bird-lore" as evidence of the poisonousness of the "wariangles" (shrikes, or butcher-birds), cited in the description of the summoner in FrT 3.1408).

Chaucer Subjects
Language and Word Studies
Friar and Hiss Tale