Clerk Jankyn: At hom to bord / With my gossib
- Author / Editor
- Carruthers, Mary (J.)
Clerk Jankyn: At hom to bord / With my gossib
- Published
- English Language Notes 23 (1985): 11-20
- Description
- "At hom" referred to "one's native dwelling," while "bord" signified "meals." "Gossib" referred to the baptismal sponsor and suggests that the Wife may well have had children. Jankyn's being "At hom to bord / With my gossib" implies that he lived with his own family, to which the Wife of Bath was closely connected.
- Chaucer Subjects
- Wife of Bath and Her Tale.