The excerpt from the "General Prologue" of the Canterbury Tales that tells us that the knight had been part of the Crusades, the military expeditions in which Christians sought to win the Holy Land, is the one that says: " Full worthy was he in his liege-lord's war, and therein had he ridden (none more far) as well in Christendom as heathenesse, and honoured everywhere for worthiness".
Two or more syllables that together make up the smallest unit of rhythm in a poem. For example, an iamb is a foot that has two syllables, one unstressed followed by one stressed. An anapest has three syllables, two unstressed followed by one stressed.
