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ROBYN1 is the name of the Miller on the pilgrimage to Canterbury. The Host calls him by name, MillT 3129. His portrait appears in Gen Prol 545-566. [Robyn2: Symkyn]
The form is the diminutive of Robert.
W.C. Curry, Chaucer and the Mediaeval Sciences, 79-90; C.A. Owen, "One Robyn or Two." MLN 67 (1952): 336-338; R.A. Pratt, "Was Robin the Miller's Youth Misspent?" MLN 59 (1944): 47-49.
From CHAUCER NAME DICTIONARY
Copyright © 1988, 1996 Jacqueline de Weever
Published by Garland Publishing, Inc., New York and London.
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