He has been identified as the nameless Old Man who leads the three men to treasure in Chaucer's Pardoner's Tale. He is also the subject of a series of etchings by Gustave Dore. John Galsworthy's "A Simple Tale" concerns him, as does O Henry's , "A Door of Unrest. " Percy Shelley's poem about him is subtitled the "Victim of the Eternal Avenger", and he is also the subject of Mary Shelley's The Mortal Immortal. First described in Roger of Wendover's Flores Historiarum, he is a shoemaker who did lot let Christ lean on his house during his carrying of the Cross. FTP, identify this legendary Jew named Ahasverus who is doom
He has been identified as the nameless Old Man who leads the three men to treasure in Chaucer's Pardoner's Tale. He is also the subject of a series of etchings by Gustave Dore. John Galsworthy's "A Simple Tale" concerns him, as does O Henry's , "A Door of Unrest. " Percy Shelley's poem about him is subtitled the "Victim of the Eternal Avenger", and he is also the subject of Mary Shelley's The Mortal Immortal. First described in Roger of Wendover's Flores Historiarum, he is a shoemaker who did lot let Christ lean on his house during his carrying of the Cross. FTP, identify this legendary Jew named Ahasverus who is doomed to walk the earth eternally.
He has been identified as the nameless Old Man who leads the three men to treasure in Chaucer's Pardoner's Tale.