Odin's Old Age: A Study of the Old Man in 'The Pardoner's Tale'
- Author / Editor
- Harris, Richard L.
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