"Foure and Twenty Yer" Again.

Author / Editor
Nault, Clifford A., Jr.

Title
"Foure and Twenty Yer" Again.

Published
Modern Language Notes 71.5 (1956): 319-21.

Description
Reinforces suggestions that the Black Knight's age at BD 455 should be emended to "nine and twenty yer" to coincide with the age of John of Gaunt at Blanche's death, justifiable because of evidence that twenty-nine years was considered to be young in "The Parlement of the Thre Ages."

Chaucer Subjects
Book of the Duchess
Manuscripts and Textual Studies