'His barge ycleped was the Maudelayne': 'Canterbury Tales' A 410
- Author / Editor
- Ferris, Sumner.
'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.