The Northernisms in 'The Reeve's Tale'
- Author / Editor
- Blake, N. F.
The Northernisms in 'The Reeve's Tale'
- Published
- Lore and Language 3.1 (1979): 1-8.
- Description
- Despite Tolkien's praise of Chaucer's "accurate observation" of dialects in RvT, examination of the mss of CT reveals that Chaucer's knowledge of northern dialect was in no way exceptional and that many of the northern speech characteristics of the two students were added by later scribes.
- Chaucer Subjects
- Reeve and His Tale.