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William Caxton (pictured centre-right), whose translation of Aesop's Fables was a probable source for the tale. A probable source of the tale is Petrus Alfonsi's Disciplina clericalis, which has the same three motifs: the rash promise of the husbandman; the wolf mistaking the moon for cheese; and the wolf that descends into the well via a bucket, thereby trapping himself and freeing the fox. [1]
Reynard the Fox. The given name Reynard is from Reginhard, Raginohardus "strong in counsel". Because of the popularity of the Reynard stories, renard became the standard French word for "fox", replacing the old French word for "fox", which was goupil from Latin vulpēcula. Since Reynard has been written about in many different times and places ...
There are different versions of the story, sometimes involving a wolf contemplating the broken head of a statue. [3] Its earliest English appearance is in William Caxton 's collection of the fables (1484), under the title of "The wulf and the dede man's hede", as an example of the proposition that 'Many one ben whiche haue grete worship and ...
This was the first Reynard tale to be adapted into English (as the Middle English "þe Vox and þe Wolf"), preceding Chaucer's "The Nun's Priest's Tale" and the much later work of William Caxton. [10] Later still, the Middle Scots The Fox, the Wolf and the Husbandman does include the Moon/cheese element.
William Caxton (c. 1422 – c. 1491) was an English merchant, diplomat and writer. He is thought to be the first person to introduce a printing press into England in 1476, and as a printer to be the first English retailer of printed books.
Sheep (defendant), Dog (accuser), Wolf (judge), Fox (notary), Raven (summoner), Kite and Vulture (lawyers), Bear and Badger (arbiters) Restitution for a loaf that was lent Shorn for payment in mid-winter Avarice makes criminals of the rich and truth is ignored William Caxton (1484) Of the dogge and of the sheep
Most Greek accounts make the animal a fox who appeals to a woodman. In the Latin poem of Phaedrus the hunted animal is a hare (lepus) who appeals to a herdsman. Later Latin versions mistake the name and make the animal a wolf (lupus). [2] It was therefore told of a wolf in the earliest printed collections of Aesop's fables in the 15th century.
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