The Old Swedish "Trohetvisan" and Chaucer's "Lak of Stedfastnesse": A Study in a Medieval Genre.
- Author / Editor
- Cross, J. E.
The Old Swedish "Trohetvisan" and Chaucer's "Lak of Stedfastnesse": A Study in a Medieval Genre.
- Published
- Saga-Book 16 (1965): 283-314.
- Description
- Considers "Trohetvisan" and Sted in light of their possible historical allusions and literary conventionality, exploring similarities and differences, and concluding that Chaucer's poem is best regarded as "undated and unaddressed," a poem "written within a popular genre [complaint against the world] in the ballade format." Also suggests that Boethius's influence on Chaucer's lyrics may be more limited or indirect than often thought, and provides in Appendix B the text of Sted with notes that document the conventionality of its phrasings in a wide range of analogues.
- Chaucer Subjects
- Lak of Stedfastnesse
Sources, Analogues, and Literary Relations