Daun Gerveys in the 'Miller's Tale'

Author / Editor
Reiss, Edmund.

Title
Daun Gerveys in the 'Miller's Tale'

Published
Papers on Language and Literature 6 (1970): 115-24.

Description
Explicates the "Gerveys scene" of MilT, focusing in particular on the meaning of "viritoot," the implications of "seinte Note," the demonic and infernal associations of blacksmithing, and Absolon's transformation of character from lover to wrathful.

Chaucer Subjects
Miller and His Tale
Language and Word Studies