[Pramāṇa](https://indike.org/pramana/) › [Foreign](https://indike.org/pramana/inf) › [European vernaculars](https://indike.org/pramana/inf.eu) › [Old and Middle English](https://indike.org/pramana/inf.eu.en) › The Canterbury Tales (Chaucer) # The Canterbury Tales (Chaucer) (The Canterbury Tales) In the Knight's Tale "the grete Emetreus, the kyng of Inde" rides to the tournament at Athens on a bay steed trapped in steel; India is a byword for the far East elsewhere in Chaucer. - **Language:** enm - **Date:** 1387–1400 CE - **Author:** [Geoffrey Chaucer](https://indike.org/pramana/person/chaucer) - **Text:** not yet digitised (catalogue entry) --- Source: [https://indike.org/pramana/inf.eu.en.chaucer](https://indike.org/pramana/inf.eu.en.chaucer) · Pramāṇa