Did Chaucer Know the Ballad of Glen Kindy?

Author / Editor
Green, Richard Firth.

Title
Did Chaucer Know the Ballad of Glen Kindy?

Published
Neophilologus 92 (2008): 351-58.

Description
Chaucer's allusion to the legendary Welsh bard Glascurion in HF (line 1209) is paralleled by details that survive in the traditional ballad "Glasgerion," or "Glen Kindy." Echoes of the ballad tradition are also found in Gavin Douglas's "The Palice of Honour."

Chaucer Subjects
House of Fame
Sources, Analogues, and Literary Relations