Talk:bryd

Meant bird in Middle English

In Chaucer's Parliament of Fowls, "bryd" means "bird":

Whan euery bryd comyth there to chese his make (explains how all birds, male and female, go to a certain place) [1]

"For 'byrd' (also spelled 'brid') means both 'bride' and 'bird' in Middle English. In late-medieval England 'bryd' could also be applied to a beloved woman; the Middle English Dictionary gives 'a term of endearment, sweetheart' as one definition of the term."

The Signifying Power of Pearl: Medieval Literary and Cultural Contexts for the Transformation of Genre, Jane Beal, Routledge, 2016, →ISBN, 9781317194255

--Enric Naval (talk) 21:32, 4 June 2017 (UTC)