I don't quitd understand the mountain girl section. The premise seems to be that an archpriest is cold and needs to get somewhere. He encounters a mountain girl who blocks the path forward. His only option is to either pay the mountain girl or walk away The archpriest always chooses to pay the toll. The mountain girl is always described as ugly also. Yet what is with all the talk about marriage?I can understand why she wants something in exchange for shelter and food but marriage seems completely spontaneous and foolish.
The story of Carnal and Lent was confusing at first, and its possible that I still do not understand it. From what I can tell it was a struggle between eating land animal meat and eating marine animal meat. Lent wins, perhaps to show how not eating land meat is wrong during lent. the poem goes through such agonizing detail, describing the fall of each of Carnal's entourage to the hand of one of Lent's fishy friends. It was comical to say the least.
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