"Sampsoun" in the Canterbury Tales: Chaucer Adapting a Source.

Author / Editor
Grennen, Joseph E.

Title
"Sampsoun" in the Canterbury Tales: Chaucer Adapting a Source.

Published
Neuphilologische Mitteilungen 67 (1966): 117-22.

Description
Argues that a possible source for the references to "Sampsoun" in PardT 6.549-61 and for aspects of the account of Samson in MkT 7.2914-94 is "Livre du Chevalier de la Tour-Landry."

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