The Middle English Breton Lays and the Mists of Origin

Author / Editor
Vial, Claire.

Title
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