The 14th century Middle French name for the country, ''Portingal'', which added an intrusive /n/ sound through the process of excrescence, spread to Middle English. Middle English variant spellings included ''Portingall'', ''Portingale'', ''Portyngale'' and ''Portingaill''. The spelling ''Portyngale'' is found in Chaucer's Epilogue to the Nun's Priest's Tale. These variants survive in the ''Torrent of Portyngale'', a Middle English romance composed around 1400, and "Old Robin of Portingale", an English Child ballad. ''Portingal'' and variants were also used in Scots and survive in the Cornish name for the country, ''Portyngal''.