Chaucer's Friar and St. Nicholas (Prologue 212)

Author / Editor
Szövérffy, Joseph.

Title
Chaucer's Friar and St. Nicholas (Prologue 212)

Published
Notes and Queries 214 (1969): 166-67.

Description
Shows that the legend of St. Nicholas may be a source of the detail about the marrying young women in Chaucer's description of the Friar in GP 1.212-13.

Chaucer Subjects
Friar and His Tale
Sources, Analogues, and Literary Relations