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A. Friend of Chaucer's

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  02 December 2020

G. L. Kittredge
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In the Hous of Fame, Chaucer mentions amongst harpers “the Bret Glascurion” (v. 1208). This personage was long ago identified with Glasgerion, the hero of a famous ballad; and a further identification of Glascurion with the Welsh bard Geraint (Y Bardd Glas Keraint) was made in 1845 by the Rev. Thomas Price. Professor Child was inclined to accept these identifications, though he expressed himself cautiously.

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PMLA , Volume 16 , Issue 3 , 1901 , pp. 450 - 452
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Copyright © Modern Language Association of America, 1901

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Note 1 in page 450 By Percy, in the 2d ed. of his Reliques, i, lvii (1767).

Note 2 in page 450 See his essay on the Remains of Ancient Literature in the Welsh, etc., published in the Literary Remains of the Rev. Thomas Price, 1854, i, 152. The identification of Glasgerion with the Welsh bard was afterwards made by Mr. Edward Williams in The Cambrian Journal, Sept., 1858, pp. 192–194 (see Child, Ballads, Part III, p. 137; Part IV, p. 571).

Note 3 in page 450 Our information is based on the title given to the poem by Shirley, which tells us that the balade in question was addressed to the prince and his brothers, Clarence, Bedford, and Gloucester, at a supper in the vintry in London at the house of Lewys Johan. See with regard to this poem and its author Studies and Notes in Philology and Literature, i, 109 ff.

Note 1 in page 451 Rot. Parl., iv, 37.

Note 2 in page 451 The grant was confirmed in 1422 by Henry VI (Rot. Parl., iv, 178).

Note 3 in page 451 Statutes of the Realm, ii, 129. Passed in Jan., 1401.

Note 4 in page 451 Patent Rolls, 2 Henry V, p. 2, m. 23, Rymer, ed. Holmes, ix, 130.

Note 5 in page 451 Proceedings of the Privy Council, ed. Nicolas, ii, 342. The other sureties were Johan Vyctor and Gerarde Davy, evidently persons in the same rank of life as Lewis Johan.

Note 1 in page 451 Proceedings of the Privy Council, ii, 318.