X-Nico

3 unusual facts about The Cock and the Jewel


The Cock and the Jewel

Literary translations of the fable, using the Latin Romulus as their source, include those by Marie de France, John Lydgate and Robert Henryson, and translators tended to retain its first-place position.

John Lydgate's version, written c.1410, is longer and more nuanced.

In Le coq et la perle, now in the Musée Denon, Chalon-sur-Saône, the bird struts by with a pearl pendant hanging from its beak, the image of self-regard.



see also