The Tale of the Captive Bird and the Traveler: Nequam, Berechiah, and Chaucer's 'Squire's Tale'
- Author / Editor
- Friend, Albert C.
The Tale of the Captive Bird and the Traveler: Nequam, Berechiah, and Chaucer's 'Squire's Tale'
- Published
- Medievalia et Humanistica 1 (1970): 57-65.
- Description
- Late twelfth-century English stories by Alexander Nequam and Berechiah haNakdan provide context for the caged bird episode in SqT, indicating that Chaucer may have intended to complete the episode with the falcon reuniting with her own kind. Also comments on Persian analogues.
- Chaucer Subjects
- Squire and His Tale
- Sources, Analogues, and Literary Relations