Odin: Old Man of The Pardoner's Tale."
- Author / Editor
- Barakat, Robert A.
Odin: Old Man of The Pardoner's Tale."
- Published
- Southern Folklore Quarterly 28 (1964): 210-15.
- Description
- Cites the folk motif of "burying Death" under an oak tree and identifies "numerous parallels" between the Old Man of PardT and Odin from Norse mythology to argue that Odin is the "prototype" of the Old Man.
- Chaucer Subjects
- Pardoner and His Tale
Sources, Analogues, and Literary Relations