A 600-year-old Chaucer mystery may finally be solved

Breakthroughs, discoveries, and DIY tips sent every weekday. Scholars believe they have solved a medieval manuscript mystery that's plagued scholars for nearly 130 years. Based on a handful of grammatical reevaluations, experts believe that they can reconcile a famously odd portion in Geoffrey Chaucer's The Canterbury Tales. In doing so, they also traced the text back to a priest from the Middle Ages who employed "memes" of the day as a way to relate to his parishioners. Their findings were published in The Review of English Studies on July 15.