Elves on the Brain: Chaucer, Old English, and Elvish
- Author / Editor
- Hall, Alaric.
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.