The context of the Tales is a pilgrimage in 1390, from Southwark in London to the shrine of St Thomas Beckett in Canterbury ... Justin Elliott’s too!) The Friar’s Tale – told by Lynda ...
In 1539, Friar Marcos de Niza ... were scouring the New World for Native American treasure had heard persistent tales of the fantastic wealth of the so-called Seven Cities of Cibola.