The tavern’s Host suggests the pilgrims should have a storytelling competition as they travel and offers to go along with them as a judge.
They’re a lively, hearty bunch, and often not exactly as one would expect: The religious figures, in particular, are often corrupt and flesh-loving (though there are a few truly holy people among them). There, he meets the host of other pilgrims who will become his traveling companions and assesses the character of each. The poem begins with a Prologue, in which a shrewd narrator-who, oddly enough, shares a name with his author-stops at the Tabard Inn on the night before his pilgrimage begins. This is a story made of stories: Each of the pilgrims takes a turn as a storyteller, with a banquet promised to the person who tells the best tale. The Canterbury Tales tells the story of a group of pilgrims traveling from London to Canterbury to visit the holy shrine of St. This guide refers to Neville Coghill’s modern English translation (Penguin, 2003).
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