Maria Giaoutzi and Peter Nijkamp
Ashgate
Hardback
322
2008
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. Arguing that Irish traditions influenced Chaucer's writing, he compares The Canterbury Tales with both Snorri's Edda and the Middle Irish saga Acallam na Sen?rach. Further, he surmises that Chaucer's five-stress line may derive from the tradition of Irish song known as amhr?n, which probably existed in Ireland well before Chaucer's time.
Ashgate
Hardback
322
2008
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. Arguing that Irish traditions influenced Chaucer's writing, he compares The Canterbury Tales with both Snorri's Edda and the Middle Irish saga Acallam na Sen?rach. Further, he surmises that Chaucer's five-stress line may derive from the tradition of Irish song known as amhr?n, which probably existed in Ireland well before Chaucer's time.