Chaucer's Gun Knowledge

[Zonie]

Many of us recall Geoffrey Chaucer from our High School English class. You remember? The guy who wrote The Canterbury Tales? The storys told in poetry which our English Teacher insisted we read?
We might have been more interested if we knew that he was familiar with guns.

Chaucer's gun knowledge? I really don't know how much he knew about guns, but there is no doubt that he had some knowledge.

In about 1373 (633 years ago) in the poem House of Fame he wrote:

"Swift as a pillet out of a gonne
When fire is in the pouder ronne."

I wonder if some of the Modern English Teachers would loose some of their fascination with Chaucer if they know he was "one of the good ole' boys" who knew about firearms. :grin:

 

[musketman]

I wonder if some of the Modern English Teachers would loose some of their fascination with Chaucer if they know he was "one of the good ole' boys" who knew about firearms. :grin:

William Shakespeare: That's a perilous shot out of an elder-gun. -King Henry V. Act iv. Sc. 1.

 

[Bookie]

:bow: You Moderators and Admin guys humble me. I stand in awe of your knowledge base. Fasinating tidbits. :bow: Cheers, Bookie

 

And thanks for all those pretty sounding words. I didn't know poetry had stuff about guns in it or I would have started reading that stuff years ago. :grin:

 

[Zonie]

Crooner54: Now that we have your attention, when you have nothing to do, visit the library and check out Chaucers Cantebury Tales (translated version of course. Middle English is almost unreadable.)
Read the Millers Tale and the Carpenters Tale.
Ribald stories in their finest that make us realize that there is very little difference between folks then and now. :grin:

 

I will try to get 'er done. I have read L'Morte d'Arthur. But it didn't have anything about flintlocks in it.
Something about a sword though :grin:
I read the rendition in modern English by Keith Baines. The original by Sir Thomas Malory was a little tough to follow but the words were put on paper real pretty. :thumbsup: