More Chaucer follow up
July 2, 2021
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Reading Chaucer’s Canterbury tales, I realized I could understand quite a bit. It helps that I’ve been in more contact with older forms of English
Category: Archaic English
Chaucer’s past participles
July 1, 2021
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So I am running across this construction in verbs while reading the prologue to the Canterbury Tales. It is to start certain verb forms with a
Archaic English in Malory’s Le Morte d’Arthur
May 6, 2021
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I had mentioned in an Instagram post that I had just finished one of the Harvard classic volumes containing a section of Thomas Malory’s Le
Archaic English
October 3, 2020
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So in this Harvard classics series, there are many works that have been translated into English from the original languages. Nearly every time, the choice