Palmer (pilgrim)
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In the Middle Ages, a palmer (Latin: palmarius or palmerius) was a Christian Pilgrim, normally from Western Europe, who had visited the holy places in Palestine, and who, as a token of his visits to the Holy Land, brought back a palm leaf, or a palm leaf folded into a cross. Palmers were often highly regarded as well natured holy men, because of their devotion to Christ along the pilgrimage. (The word is frequently used as synonymous with "pilgrim").[1]
One of the most prominent literary characters to have been a palmer was Wilfred of Ivanhoe, the protagonist of the eponymous book by Sir Walter Scott.[2] A palmer also plays a significant role representing Reason in Book II of Edmund Spenser's epic poem The Faerie Queene. [3]
Notes
- ↑ Chisholm 1911, p. 645.
- ↑ Cummings 2010.
- ↑ Woodhouse 1949.
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