Entertainment / Literature / Prys: The French noun prys, meaning 'worthiness,' is a cognate with the English word 'price.' Prys was rich in connotations, appearing frequently in French chansons de geste and medieval romances. It embodies knightly worthiness on a number of levels. A knight who has prys is loyal, brave, polite, courtly, proud, refined in taste, and perhaps a bit foolhardy and arrogant, quick to take anger at an insult and fast to accept a challenge or dual. Chaucer uses this term to describe the Knight in the General Prologue of The Canterbury Tales: And everemoore he hadde a sovereyn prys. (also spelled pris)
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