Wade, Hildebrand and Brendan
- Author / Editor
- Peeters, L[eopold].
Wade, Hildebrand and Brendan
- Published
- Amsterdammer Beitrage zur Alteren Germanistik 3 (1973): 25-65.
- Description
- Provides context for the allusion to "Wades boot" in MerT (4.1423), observing in a thirteenth-century Latin homily on humility connections between Wade and Hildebrand, both Germanic heroes, and further associations with the Irish St. Brendan. Explores what can be known of Wade through various sources
- Chaucer Subjects
- Merchant and His Tale
- Sources, Analogues, and Literary Relations