A Chaucer Borrowing in "Kristin Lavransdatter."

Author / Editor
Emerson, Katherine T.

Title
A Chaucer Borrowing in "Kristin Lavransdatter."

Published
Notes and Queries 200 (1955): 370-71.

Description
Recognizes the influence of the Prioress's table manners (GP 1.128-35) in a description of the nuns of the Nonnester convent in the first part of Sigrid Undset's "Kristen Lavransdattir" trilogy and observes other quotations of and references to Chaucer in Undset's writings.

Chaucer Subjects
Chaucer's Influence and Later Allusion
Prioress and Her Tale