'Bear the Bell' in Dafydd ap Gwilym, and 'Troilus and Criseyde'
- Author / Editor
- Breeze, Andrew.
'Bear the Bell' in Dafydd ap Gwilym, and 'Troilus and Criseyde'
- Published
- Notes and Queries 237 (1992): 441-45.
- Description
- "Bear the bell" (TC 3.198) is best explained through a Welsh phrase in Dafydd ap Gwilym referring to falconry. Falcons wore bells, and the phrase meant "to be pre-eminent."
- Chaucer Subjects
- Troilus and Criseyde