"A sheep that highte Malle" (NPT, VII, 2831).
- Author / Editor
- Rowland, Beryl.
"A sheep that highte Malle" (NPT, VII, 2831).
- Published
- English Language Notes 6 (1968): 84-87.
- Description
- Explores the implications of the name "Malle" that is given to the widow's sheep in NPT 7.2831: the sheep is a ewe and suggests the widow's "simplicity, her poverty, and one of the ways in which" she is a dairy woman.
- Chaucer Subjects
- Nun's Priest's Tale
Language and Word Studies