Sirith-na-Gig? Dame Sirith and the Fabliau Hags as Textual Analogues to the Sheela-figures

Author / Editor
Borysławski, Rafał.

Title
Sirith-na-Gig? Dame Sirith and the Fabliau Hags as Textual Analogues to the Sheela-figures

Published
Marcin Krygier and Liliana Sikorska, eds. To Make His Englissh Sweete upon His Tonge (New York: Peter Lang, 2007), pp. 121-33.

Description
Discusses how sheela-na-gig carvings share appearance and function with loathly lady figures in Middle English literature, including the one found in WBT.

Alternative Title
To Make His Englissh Sweete upon His Tonge.

Chaucer Subjects
Wife of Bath and Her Tale
Sources, Analogues, and Literary Relations.