Chaucer's "Gnof."
- Author / Editor
- Biggs, Frederick M.
Chaucer's "Gnof."
- Published
- Studies in the Age of Chaucer 40 (2018): 289-330.
- Description
- Argues that "gnof" (MilT 1.3188) is Chaucer's neologism, clarifying the trouble his scribes had with the word, detailing its later use in English (especially in association with Kett's Rebellion of 1575), and establishing the likelihood that Chaucer derived it from the Italian interjection "gnaffé"--evidence that Boccaccio's "Decameron" 3.4 was a source of MilPT and its theme of readers' expectations. Compares "gnof" with Lewis Carroll's "brillig."
- Chaucer Subjects
- Language and Word Studies
Miller and His Tale
Sources, Analogues, and Literary Relations
Manuscripts and Textual Studies