The Celestial Origin of Elpheta and Algarsyf in Chaucer's 'Squire's Tale'
- Author / Editor
- Finkelstein, Dorothee.
The Celestial Origin of Elpheta and Algarsyf in Chaucer's 'Squire's Tale'
- Published
- Euroasiatica 4 (1970): 3-13.
- Description
- Traces the origins of the names Elpheta and Algarsyf, used in SqT, to "familial" clusters in Arabic star catalogs that were translated into the Latin Middle Ages and mentioned in Astr. Suggests affiliations of the names with the magic sword and horse of the Tale.
- Chaucer Subjects
- Squire and His Tale
- Sources, Analogues, and Literary Relations
- Treatise on the Astrolabe