'His barge ycleped was the Maudelayne': 'Canterbury Tales' A 410

Author / Editor
Ferris, Sumner.

Title
'His barge ycleped was the Maudelayne': 'Canterbury Tales' A 410

Published
Names 31 (1983): 207-10.

Description
The Shipman and other mariners named ships after Mary Magdalene as protectress from shipwreck and death and, probably, because of her scarlet past.

Chaucer Subjects
Shipman and His Tale.