Meanings of 'Malyne' in 'The Reeve's Tale'

Author / Editor
O'Keefe, Timothy J.

Title
Meanings of 'Malyne' in 'The Reeve's Tale'

Published
American Notes and Queries 12.1 (1973): 5-7.

Description
Tallies various possible verbal plays on "Malyne" in RvT, including the "implication that her lineage or line is tainted."

Chaucer Subjects
Reeve and His Tale
Language and Word Studies