Fear Chiefly in Old and Middle English

Author / Editor
Stanley, Eric G.

Title
Fear Chiefly in Old and Middle English

Published
PoeticaT 66 (2006): 73-114.

Description
Etymological and semantic exploration of "fear" and related words that indicates nuances lost in translation between early English and modern editions and adaptations; discusses two uses of "no fere" in TC (3.583 and 1144) and an emendation of "thys fere" to "hys fere" in HF 174.

Chaucer Subjects
Language and Word Studies.
Troilus and Criseyde.
House of Fame.