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ELCANOR cannot be positively identified. It may refer to Helcanor/Helcana, the heroine of the Old French prose romance Cassidorus (thirteenth century), who appears to her lover twelve times in dreams. The romance is a continuation of the prose redaction of the Old French Les sept sages de Rome (The Seven Sages of Rome).

Not even Elcanor has had a dream like this one of flying with an eagle, HF II.512-517.

The name appears in final rhyming position, HF II.516.

Le Roman de Cassidorus, ed. J. Palermo; Les sept sages de Rome, ed. G. Paris; Riverside Chaucer, ed. L. Benson, 982; J.S.P Tatlock, "Chaucer's 'Elcanor.' " MLN 36 (1921): 95-97.
From CHAUCER NAME DICTIONARY
Copyright © 1988, 1996 Jacqueline de Weever
Published by Garland Publishing, Inc., New York and London.
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