Irish Analogues to the Reeve's Tale

Author / Editor
Grace, Robert.

Title
Irish Analogues to the Reeve's Tale

Published
Sinsear (Dublin) 7: 41-48, 1993.

Description
Reconsiders the 127 Irish analogues to RvT cited in Antti Aarne and Stith Thompson's "Types of Folktale" and reduces them to four. Comments on the transmission of the various motifs in the Tale, suggesting that Chaucer may have gotten the Tale from English oral tradition.

Chaucer Subjects
Reeve and His Tale.
Sources, Analogues, and Literary Relations.