When Chaucer uses the word "here", is it meant to mean "her" or "their"? Here's an example of it in a sentence - "Som tyme yit they mette/ By sleyghte" to speak "of here desyr".

wajo	This glossary says 'her' http://geoffreychaucer.org/language/basic-chaucer-glossary.pdf So does this one: http://pages.towson.edu/duncan/glossary.html Jan 24 09, 5:19 PM

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If I can rely on the "Riverside Chaucer", published by U.O.P., and on the included URL, then verse 150 and vv. 153-154 of "Troilus and Criseyde" clearly illustrate that THEY combines with HIRE, which is an alternative for HERE.(See below.) v.150 HIRE olde usage ne wolde THEI nat letten ... THEI hadde a relik, heet Palladion, That was HIRE trist aboven everichon. http://www.umm.maine.edu/faculty/necastro/oldchaucer /concordance/tr/tr.txt.WebConcordance/tr.txt1.htm#160 Note: On page xxxii of his introduction Larr D. Benson explicitly states, when discussing pronouns: In the third person (implied:plural) the nominative is always THEY, the possessive and objective HIRE/HERE and HEM respectively. Jan 25 09, 11:38 AM