Arthour
Middle English
[edit]Proper noun
[edit]Arthour
- Arthur
- 1380s–1390s, Geoffrey Chaucer, The Canterbury Tales: The Wife of Bath’s Prologue and Tale
- In th' olde dayes of the king Arthour, / Of which that Britons speken greet honour, / All was this land fulfild of fayerye.
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- 1380s–1390s, Geoffrey Chaucer, The Canterbury Tales: The Wife of Bath’s Prologue and Tale
References
[edit]p. 1, Arthur; A Short Sketch of his Life and History in English Verse of the First Half of the Fifteenth Century, Frederick Furnivall ed. EETS. Trübner & Co.: London. 1864.