'I Trowe He Were a Gelding or a Mare': A Veiled Description of a Bent Pardoner
- Author / Editor
- Cocco, Gabriele.
'I Trowe He Were a Gelding or a Mare': A Veiled Description of a Bent Pardoner
- Published
- Neophilologus 92 (2008): 359-66.
- Description
- Chaucer may have tapped into traditional knowledge of the Northern god Loki in creating the description of the Pardoner in GP. Links with Loki, who transformed himself into a mare in the Old Norse "Gylfaginning," encourage us to view the Pardoner as homosexual and a warped trickster.
- Chaucer Subjects
- Pardoner and His Tale
- Sources, Analogues, and Literary Relations