Elves on the Brain: Chaucer, Old English, and Elvish

Author / Editor
Hall, Alaric.

Title
Elves on the Brain: Chaucer, Old English, and Elvish

Published
Anglia 124 (2006): 225-43.

Description
Reevaluation and continuation of the studies by John Burrow and by Richard Firth Green on the meaning of the word "elvish" in CT. "Elvish" in CYT carries the meaning "delusory," whereas elvish in the prologue to Th means "abstracted."

Chaucer Subjects
Language and Word Studies.
Tale of Sir Thopas.
Canon's Yeoman and His Tale.