Abstract
THROUGHOUT Europe, from medieval times to the present, there have existed legends of a peasants' paradise where houses are made out of pastries, food falls from the sky right into one's mouth, and no one needs to work for a living-in fact, the inhabitants are paid to sleep. In Germany, this land is known as Schlaraffenland, in Holland as Luilekkerland, in England as Lubberland, in Italy as Cuccagna, in Spain as Cucafia, and in France as Cocagne; from the latter comes the general name of this paradise which I shall use in this paper, the Land of Cockaigne.' Examples of English references to the myth may be found in written sources of the Middle Ages and the Renaissance as well as in oral tradition. The first record appears in an early fourteenth-century anticlerical satire, The Land of Cockaygne (c. 1305), which exploits some typical motifs for its own purposes:
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