Another Northernism in 'The Reeve's Tale'?

Author / Editor
Blake, N. F.

Title
Another Northernism in 'The Reeve's Tale'?

Published
Notes and Queries 222 (1977): 400-01.

Description
The lines (1.4087 and 4187) in RvT suggest the reading of "god" without the inflectional ending. Tolkien objects on grounds of meter, but we do not know enough about Chaucer's meter to emend on these grounds alone.

Chaucer Subjects
Reeve and His Tale.