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Marks on the Maiden’s skin in the Middle English poem Pearl have been taken to indicate that she died of plague. Because outbreaks of plague in fourteenth-century England can be dated, this suggests that Pearl may date from the early 1390s.
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Breeze, A. Pearl and the Plague of 1390–1393. Neophilologus 98, 337–341 (2014). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11061-013-9376-y
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