Before revision: Variants The tale appears in medieval fabliaux, and was used in school exercise of rhetoric.Jan M. Ziolkowski Fairy Tales from Before Fairy Tales: The Medieval Latin Past of Wonderful Lies p 42 9780472033799 It first appears in the 11-century Cambridge Songs.
After revision: Variants The tale appears in Medieval fabliaux, and was used in school exercises of rhetoric.Jan M. Ziolkowski Fairy Tales from Before Fairy Tales: The Medieval Latin Past of Wonderful Lies p 42 9780472033799 It first appears in the 11th-centuryISBN Cambridge Songs.