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 It first appears in the 11th-century Cambridge Songs. A Medieval play about the Virgin Mary has characters disbelieving her story of her pregnancy citing the tale.
Variants The tale first appears in the 11th-century Cambridge Songs.Jan M. Ziolkowski, (ed. and trans.), The Cambridge Songs (‘Carmina Cantabrigensia’), The Garland Library of Medieval Literature, Series A, 66 (Garland: New York, 1994), no. 14. It also 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 A Medieval play about the Virgin Mary has characters disbelieving her story of her pregnancy citing the tale.
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first appears in the 11th-century Cambridge Songs.Jan M. Ziolkowski, (ed. and trans.), The Cambridge Songs (‘Carmina Cantabrigensia’), The Garland Library of Medieval Literature, Series A, 66 (Garland: New York, 1994), no. 14. It also appears in Medieval
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It first appears in the 11th-century Cambridge Songs.