Chaucer's 'Nembrot' A Note on 'The Former Age'

Author / Editor
Schmidt, A. V. C.

Title
Chaucer's 'Nembrot' A Note on 'The Former Age'

Published
Medium AEvum 47 (1978): 304-07.

Description
Nimrod ("Nembrot") is the only biblical figure in "The Former Age." The detail that he designed the Tower of Babel is traditional, but Chaucer's reference in this poem seems to be derived directly from Walafrid Strabo's "Glossa Ordinaria."

Chaucer Subjects
Former Age.