Note 317:B — Chapter IX · (continued 2)
Reading edition
The resemblance between the search of Svegder for Godheim or Fairy-land, and the object of Sir Thopas's expedition, cannot but strike the reader:—
"In his sadel he clombe anon, And pricked over stile and ston An elf quene for to espie; Til he so long had riden and gone That he fond, in a privie wone, The countree of Faërie. Wherein he saughte north and south, And often spired with his mouth, In many a foreste wilde; For in that countree nas ther non, That to him dorst ride or gon, Neither wif ne childe."
Cant. Tales, apud Tyrwhitt, v. 13726.