Sovereignty and the Loathly Lady in English, Welsh and Irish

Author / Editor
Bollard, J. K.

Title
Sovereignty and the Loathly Lady in English, Welsh and Irish

Published
Leeds Studies in English 17 (1986): 41-59.

Description
WBT, Gower's "Tale of Florent," the "Wedding of Sir Gawain and Dame Ragnell," and "The Marriage of Gawain" (from the Percy Folio) are sufficiently different from the Irish tales of the transformed hag to raise doubts about the transmission of this story from Irish to Middle English. Chaucer's treatment of ballad and romance motifs differs from Gower's.

Chaucer Subjects
Wife of Bath and Her Tale.
Sources, Analogues, and Literary Relations.