Two Notes on the Summoner's Tale: Hosts and Swans.
- Author / Editor
- Hartung, Albert E.
Two Notes on the Summoner's Tale: Hosts and Swans.
- Published
- English Language Notes 4.3 (1967): 175-80.
- Description
- Reads "hostes man" in SumT 3.1755 as referring to the "servant of the innkeeper at whose inn the two friars are staying," and adduces paleographical evidence for retaining unemended "swan" as a suggestive detail in SumT 3.1930.
- Chaucer Subjects
- Summoner and His Tale
Language and Word Studies
Manuscripts and Textual Studies