Geoffrey of Monmouth and Chaucer's 'Legend of Good Women'

Author / Editor
Delany, Sheila.

Title
Geoffrey of Monmouth and Chaucer's 'Legend of Good Women'

Published
Chaucer Review 22 (1987): 170-75.

Description
Chaucer's line "Betynge with his heles on the grounde" (LGW 863) echoes Geoffrey's description of Frollo's death ("Historia regum Britanniae" 9.9) and in turn suggests that Chaucer viewed Geoffrey's work with skepticism.

Chaucer Subjects
Legend of Good Women.