Some Spellings in Chaucer's Reeve's Tale

Author / Editor
Horobin, S. C. P.

Title
Some Spellings in Chaucer's Reeve's Tale

Published
Notes and Queries 245.1: 16-18, 2000.

Description
Explains an eccentric spelling in the Hengwrt version of RvT (heem, or "home") as descending from Old Norse (East Norse "hem"), extended by a kind of imitation in Ellesmere to geen ("gone") and neen ("none"). Ellesmere also mistakes a Northern form of lang(e).

Chaucer Subjects
Manuscripts and Textual Studies.
Reeve and His Tale.