Seventeen Words of Middle Dutch Origin in the Miller's Tale?
- Author / Editor
- Biggs, Frederick M.
Seventeen Words of Middle Dutch Origin in the Miller's Tale?
- Published
- N&Q 251 (2006): 407-09.
- Description
- Peter G. Beidler identifies "Heile van Beersele" as a likely source for MilT, supporting his argument with seventeen words he ascribes to Middle Dutch origin in MilT. Only one "or perhaps two" of those words prove to be "distinctively Dutch," however, thus providing little assistance in identifying Chaucer's source.
- Chaucer Subjects
- Miller and His Tale.
- Sources, Analogues, and Literary Relations.