Two Notes on the Summoner's Tale: Hosts and Swans.

Author / Editor
Hartung, Albert E.

Title
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