Scholars say handwriting errors in a 900-year-old document changes the understanding of "The Song of Wade", a lost English poem.

A mystery surrounding a lost poem or story referenced by Geoffrey Chaucer may have been solved after scientists corrected a ...

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Scholars have decoded a medieval manuscript linked to Chaucer’s Canterbury Tales, solving a 130-year-old literary mystery.

Scholars have been left puzzled for 130 years by a medieval literary mystery - but now, two experts believe they have finally solved it. In the Middle Ages, the Song of Wade was a widely-known folk ...

The Song of Wade was hugely popular throughout the Middle Ages. For several centuries, its central character remained a major ...

The Tale of Wade, referred to in Chaucer’s poems, survives only in a tiny fragment. Two academics argue a scribe’s error ...

A medieval sermon packed with 'memes' and simple spelling mistakes could explain a baffling line in 'The Canterbury Tales.' ...

Falk and Wade have also translated nikeres as “sea-snakes” instead of “sprites.” In Old and Middle English, the term was used ...

Medieval poet Geoffrey Chaucer twice made references to an early work featuring a Germanic mythological character named Wade. Only three lines survive, discovered buried in a sermon by a late 19th ...

Reminiscent of love and with an unmistakable odour of death, the little stinkers of the natural world might incite repulsion, ...

Authenticity is the enemy of art – and yet our hunger for it has been allowed to cloud almost every corner of creativity. You ...