Patience and Her 'Hil of Sond' in the 'Parliament of Fowls'
- Author / Editor
- Walls, Kathryn.
Patience and Her 'Hil of Sond' in the 'Parliament of Fowls'
- Published
- American Notes and Queries 16 (1977): 34.
- Description
- Dame Patience sitting "upon an hil of sond" (PF, 242-43) may come from the second recension of Deguileville's "Pelerinage de la vie humaine" where the persistence of an ant in reaching the top of a sand hill might be thought of as the active equivalent of patience (II. 10,096-242, English translation of 1426).
- Chaucer Subjects
- Parliament of Fowls.
- Sources, Analogues, and Literary Relations.