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"The Franklin's Tale", middle-english hypertext with glossary and side-by-side middle english and modern english; The Franklin's Tale with interlinear translation; Modern Translation of the Franklin's Tale and Other Resources at eChaucer; The Franklin's Tale – a plain-English retelling for non-scholars.
Franklin's lost expedition was a failed British voyage of Arctic exploration led by Captain Sir John Franklin that departed England in 1845 aboard two ships, HMS Erebus and HMS Terror, and was assigned to traverse the last unnavigated sections of the Northwest Passage in the Canadian Arctic and to record magnetic data to help determine whether ...
Frozen in Time: The Fate of the Franklin Expedition is a book by Owen Beattie and John Geiger, first published in 1987 by Bloomsbury Publishing.The book focuses on the dramatic events surrounding the Franklin Expedition of 1845-1848, led by Sir John Franklin, as well as the scientific work and forensic testing on the bodies of three perfectly preserved Victorian seamen 138 years after their ...
'The Franklin's Tale' from the Canterbury Tales by Geoffrey Chaucer. The Franklin describes his tale thus: Thise olde gentil Bretouns in hir dayes Of diverse aventures maden layes, Rymeyed in hir firste Briton tonge; Which layes with hir instrumentz they songe, Or elles redden hem for hir plesaunce. [6]
Geoffrey Chaucer's "The Franklin's Tale", itself partly based on Boccaccio's The Filocolo: Dorigen, a married woman whose husband is absent, promises another suitor that he may have her if he makes the rocks on the coast of Brittany disappear. [5] [7]
A franklin is one of the characters in The Canterbury Tales by Geoffrey Chaucer. Cedric of Rotherwood, a character in the historical novel Ivanhoe by Sir Walter Scott, is a franklin. Georgette Heyer uses the term in her novel The Conqueror (1931), which is set in 11th-century Falaise, Normandy.
Geoffrey Spirleng (c. 1426-c. 1494) was an English scribe.He worked for John Fastolf, and was common clerk of Norwich from 1471 to 1491. As common clerk of Norwich, he was responsible for the register known as the Old Free Book. [1]
Passage is a 2008 documentary film partly based on the book Fatal Passage about Sir John Franklin's lost expedition through the Northwest Passage. [1] The film explores the fate of the doomed mission, including John Rae's efforts to uncover the truth, and Lady Franklin's campaign to defend her late husband's reputation.