The Middle English Breton Lays and the Mists of Origin
- Author / Editor
- Vial, Claire.
The Middle English Breton Lays and the Mists of Origin
- Published
- Leo Carruthers, Raeleen Chai-Elsholz, and Tatjana Silec, eds. Palimpsests and the Literary Imagination of Medieval England (New York: Plagrave Macmillan, 2011), pp. 175-91.
- Description
- Awareness of generic ancestry offers evidence of the palimpsestuous nature of the "true" Middle English Breton lays. Reference is made to Chaucer's FranT among other so-called Breton lays.
- Alternative Title
- Palimpsests and the Literary Imagination of Medieval England.
- Chaucer Subjects
- Franklin and His Tale