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Editions:

• Heuser, W. (Ed.). Die Kildare Gedichte. Bonn 1904:145-150.
• Robbins, Rossell Hope (Ed.). Historical Poems of the XIVth and XVth Centuries. New York 1959:121-127.
• Bennett, J. A. W. and G. V. Smithers (Eds.). Early Middle English Verse and Prose. 2nd ed., Oxford 1968:136-144.

Studies:

• Garbaty, Thomas J. "Studies in the Franciscian Land of Cockaygne in the Kildare MS," FS 45 (1963):139ff.
• Kyczynski, P. "Utopie und Satire in The Land of Cockaygne," ZAA 28 (1980):45-55.
• Tigges, Wim. "The Land of Cokaygne: Sophisticated Mirth," in: Veldhoen, N. H. G. E. and H. Aertsen. Companion to Early Middle English Literature. Amsterdam 1988:97-104.
• Weiss, Wolfgang. " 'Land of Cockaygne': Utopie, Parodie oder Satire?" in: Weiss, Wolfgang (Ed.). Die englische Satire. Darmstadt 1982:124-134.
• Weiss, Wolfgang. "Verkehrte Welt, Schlaraffenland und Tausendjähriges Reich: Utopische Entwürfe in der englischen Literatur des Mittlealters," in: Pfister, Manfred (Ed.). Alternative Welten. München 1982:81-95.