“But I would walk 500 miles
And I would walk 500 more“

— The Proclaimers, I’m Gonna Be (500 Miles) (Sunshine on Leith, 1988)

Geoffrey Chaucer (1340s-1400) is probably best known as the man who wrote The Canterbury Tales, a collection of stories in Middle English told by a group of fictional pilgrims as part of a storytelling contest during their journey from London to Canterbury cathedral. 

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