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A licensed beggar who used women and then married them to other men, he sang and played the fiddle, knew the innkeepers and barmaids in every town, flirted mercilessly, and made more money on the sly than he made through his regular income. His name was Hubert.

What two colors is the Green Knight wearing?

At the beginning of Sir Gawain and the Green Knight, Arthur refuses to eat until

The name of the inn where Chaucer-pilgrim meets the others is

The Wife of Bath drove her old husbands crazy by

Whose funeral occurs at the end of Beowulf?

This teller of a dirty tale could ram a door off its hinges with his head, had a red beard and a wart on his nose, played a mean bagpipe, and might have put his thumb on the scale as he measured out grain.

The Squire in The Canterbury Tales is

In King Arthur’s dream in which he is warned not to fight Mordred, the person who warns him is Lancelot.

This character, described by Chaucer-pilgrim as a possible eunuch or homosexual, sold pardons from Rome and claimed to have all sorts of miraculous religious relics.