Chanticleer's Latin Ancestors

Author / Editor
Yates, Donald.

Title
Chanticleer's Latin Ancestors

Published
Chaucer Review 18 (1983): 116-26.

Description
Latin, rather than OF, sources, especially the twelfth-century "Isengrimus," provide parallels with NPT. The fifteenth-century Low German "De vos und de hane" was derived orally from the "Isengrimus." Possibly Chaucer heard an analogous English poem derived from the Latin.

Chaucer Subjects
Nun's Priest and His Tale.
Sources, Analogues, and Literary Relations.