Chaucer in translation
As part of ASU's celebration of Chaucer – March 31 to April 2 – here is an excerpt from "The Summoner's Tale" that compares Chaucer's text to a modern translation.
Wikipedia translation: This friar boasts that he knows hell,
Wikipedia translation: And God knows that it is little wonder;
Wikipedia translation: Friars and fiends are seldom far apart.
Wikipedia translation: For, by God, you have ofttimes heard tell
Wikipedia translation: How a friar was taken to hell
Wikipedia translation: In spirit, once by a vision;
Wikipedia translation: And as an angel led him up and down,
ikipedia translation: To show him the pains that were there,
Wikipedia translation: In the whole place he saw not one friar;
Wikipedia translation: He saw enough of other folk in woe.