The Story of Lady Ragnell and the Wife of Bath's Tale very similar but have differences that distinguish the two. The most obvious comparison between the two works is the dilemma they face. In both stories, a man's life hangs in the balance and all he has to do to be spared is answer a question. This question is about what women really want. Another similarity concerns the outcome of each story. The differences between the two stories are revealed in the plots. The differences that stand out the most are the circumstances that led to the question being asked and the attitude of the person who must marry the old hag to get the answer to the question. In the story of Lady Ragnell and "The Wife of Bath's Tale", the men in question find themselves in a very serious situation. The knight from "The Wife of Bath's Tale" finds himself in a difficult situation when he rapes a young girl. In "Lady Ragnell", King Arthur is accused of giving Sir Gawain land belonging to someone else, Gromer Somer Joure. Their crimes are completely different, but they nevertheless deserve similar punishment. While the reason each character is in their situation is a glaring difference between the two stories, in both cases the characters' lives hang in the balance because of something they did. To be saved from death, they must answer a question: “To show me when you arrive what men love most in the fields and in the city. » (Ragnell 91-92) This is what Gromer Somer Joure asks King Arthur in the story of Lady Ragnell. In "The Wife of Bath's Tale" we can see that the question is phrased differently. The queen said to the knight: “I guarantee your life if you can tell me what is the thing that women desire most. (Bain 910-911) Although there is a slight difference in the wording of the question in each tale, each still has the same idea: What do women want most? In both stories, the main characters, the knight in "The Wife of Bath's Tale" and King Arthur in Lady Ragnell's story, search for the answer to this question. Both characters end up finding a person who knows the answer. In every story there is an old witch who knows the answer to the question that the knight and King Arthur must answer. This is where the differences between the two stories begin to emerge. In "The Wife of Bath's Tale", the witch asks the knight to do the next thing she asks him to do and she will give him the answer. He accepts and she gives him the answer. He appears before the queen and answers the question. The old witch then said to the queen: I taught this answer to the knight, for which he gave me his trouble there. The first thing I would ask him, he would do, if he could. (Bain 1056-1059) The witch then asks the knight to marry her. The knight does not want to marry the witch, but he must because he gave his word. Similarly, in the story of Lady Ragnell, Arthur meets a witch, named Lady Ragnell, who knows the answer to the question she must answer. Ragnell demands that King Arthur marry Sir Gawain, and she will answer the question for him. Sir Gawain agrees and King Arthur is spared. The difference here is that Sir Gawain is not afraid of marrying Ragnell, while the knight is terrified of having to marry the witch. Gawain is more than willing to carry out this deed for King Arthur and does not try to back down. Finally, we receive the results of each story,., 1966