The Monk's 'Olde Thynges': Eliminating a Supposed Chaucerian Anacoluthon

Author / Editor
Grennen, Joseph E.

Title
The Monk's 'Olde Thynges': Eliminating a Supposed Chaucerian Anacoluthon

Published
Papers of the Bibliographical Society of America 82 (1988): 337-40.

Description
Taking "olde thyngs" (GP 175, Monk's sketch) as a scribal corruption or emendation of the unattested "alder-thynge" eliminates problems of syntax, semantics, and meaning.

Chaucer Subjects
Monk and His Tale.