Sow-and-Bagpipe Imagery in the Miller's Portrait.

Author / Editor
Scott, Kathleen L.

Title
Sow-and-Bagpipe Imagery in the Miller's Portrait.

Published
Review of English Studies 18 (1967): 287-90.

Description
Identifies several medieval visual images of a sow playing bagpipes and suggests that the iconography underlies the reference to bagpipes and the two references to a female pig in the GP description of the Miller, helping to characterize him as coarse and over-indulgent.

Chaucer Subjects
Miller and His Tale