Chaucer and the Norse and Celtic Worlds
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Anonymous Narrator
Arthurian Setting
Author_Rory McTurk
Bath's Prologue
Bath's Tale
Book III
canterbury
Canterbury Tales
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Celtic and Norse sources in Chaucer
chaucer's
Chaucer's Canterbury Tales
Chaucer's House
Chretien's Conte Del Graal
comparative mythology
Dead Man
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Finn Ban
general
Gerald ofWales
house
Internal Rhyme
Irish Accounts
Irish Minstrels
Irish Tale
Laxdcela Saga
literary influence analysis
Loathly Lady
medieval literature studies
Middle English poetry
narrative frameworks research
nun's
Nun's Priest's Tale
Old Irish sagas
priest's
sir
Sir Thopas
Stressed Syllable
Syllabic Poetry
tale
tales
thopas
Tuatha De
Tuatha De Danann
Young Man
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- ISBN 9781138378155
- Weight: 453g
- Dimensions: 156 x 234mm
- Publication Date: 23 Aug 2018
- Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd
- Publication City/Country: GB
- Product Form: Paperback
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Through an examination of Old Norse and Celtic parallels to certain works of Chaucer, McTurk here identifies hitherto unrecognized sources for these works in early Irish tradition. He revives the idea that Chaucer visited Ireland between 1361 and 1366, placing new emphasis on the date of the enactment of the Statute of Kilkenny. Examining Chaucer’s House of Fame, McTurk uncovers parallels involving eagles, perilous entrances, and scatological jokes about poetry in the Topographia Hibernie by Gerald of Wales, Snorri Sturluson’s Edda, and the Old Irish sagas Fled Bricrend and Togail Bruidne Da Derga. He compares The Canterbury Tales, with its use of the motif of a journey as a framework for a tale-collection, with both Snorri’s Edda and the Middle Irish saga Acallam na Senórach. McTurk presents a compelling argument that these works represent Irish traditions which influenced Chaucer’s writing. In this study, McTurk also argues that the thirteenth-century Icelandic Laxdæla Saga and Chaucer’s Wife of Bath’s Prologue and Tale each descend from an Irish version of the Loathly Lady story. Further, he surmises that Chaucer’s five-stress line may derive from the tradition of Irish song known as amhrán, which, there is reason to suppose, existed in Ireland well before Chaucer’s time.
Rory McTurk is Reader in Icelandic Studies at the University of Leeds, UK.
