Arcite's Injury
- Author / Editor
- Donaldson, E. Talbot.
Arcite's Injury
- Published
- Douglas Gray and E. G. Stanley, eds. Middle English Studies Presented to Norman Davis in Honour of His Seventieth Birthday (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1983), pp. 65-67.
- Description
- The traditional reading is that Arcite's horse pitches him to the ground so that Arcite, falling on his head, has his chest shattered by the saddlebow. The words "pomel" and "pighte," however, show that Arcite is not thrown from his horse but is impaled on the saddlebow.
- Alternative Title
- Middle English Studies Presented to Norman Davis in Honour of His Seventieth Birthday.
- Chaucer Subjects
- Knight and His Tale.