The Frozen Horn

I am quite angry with J.M.G. for supposing my old friend Sir John Maundevile guilty of such a *flam* as that which he quotes from memory as the worthy knight's own statement. There is no such story in the *Voiage and Travaile*: nay more, there is not in the whole of that "ryght merveillous" book, a single passage given on the authority of Sir John as eyewitness that is not perfectly credible. When he quotes Pliny for monsters, the Chronicles for legends, and the romances of his time for narratives of an extraordinary character, he does so in evident good faith as a compiler. His most improbabl…