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DANE. Daphne, daughter of the river god Peneus, was pledged to the goddess Diana. Apollo fell in love with her, but she fled from him. Just as he overtook her, she appealed to her father, and he changed her into a laurel tree. Apollo made a wreath of its leaves, which became the reward for poets at festivals (Met I.452-567; OM I.2737-3064).

The story appears on the walls of Diana's oratory, KnT 2061-2064. Troilus invokes Phebus by his love for Dane, Tr III.726. [Apollo: Diane: Penneus]

Dane, the ME variant of OF Dané (Froissart's L'Espinette amoureuse, 1572) and the dative case of medieval Latin (Boccaccio, De genealogia deorum gentilium VII.xxix), occurs twice in a medial position, KnT 2063, Tr III.726, and once in final rhyming position, KnT 2064.

Boccaccio, De genealogia deorum gentilium, ed. V. Romano, I: 363; J. Froissart, L'Espinette amoureuse, ed. A. Fourrier, 90; Ovid, Met, ed. and trans. F.J. Miller, I: 34-43; OM, ed. C. de Boer, I, deel 15: 120-126; R.M. Smith, "Five Notes on Chaucer and Froissart." MLN 66 (1951): 27-32.
From CHAUCER NAME DICTIONARY
Copyright © 1988, 1996 Jacqueline de Weever
Published by Garland Publishing, Inc., New York and London.
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