Odin's Old Age: A Study of the Old Man in 'The Pardoner's Tale'

Author / Editor
Harris, Richard L.

Title
Odin's Old Age: A Study of the Old Man in 'The Pardoner's Tale'

Published
Southern Folklore Quarterly 33 (1969): 24-38.

Description
Assumes that the Death and the Old Man in PardT are "one and the same person," and provides evidence from Scandinavian literature that Odin was an analogous figure, perhaps even a distant source, although Christianized.

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