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Noah’s Wife [Noraida]

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according to legend, was unwilling to go into the ark, and the quarrel between the patriarch and his wife forms a very prominent feature of Noah’s Flood, in the Chester and Townley Mysteries.

“Hastow nought herd, quod Nicholas, also

The sorwe of Noë with his felaschippe

That he had or he gat his wyf to schipe?”


Chaucer: Canterbury Tales, 3,534.

 

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Entry taken from Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, edited by the Rev. E. Cobham Brewer, LL.D. and revised in 1895.

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Nix (mas.), Nixie (fem.)
Nixon
Nizam
Njörd
No Man is a Hero to his own Valet
No More Poles
No-Popery Riots
Noah’s Ark (Genesis vi. 15)
Noah’s Ark
Noah’s Wife [Noraida]
Noakes (John) or John o Noakes
Nob (The)
Nob of the First Water (A)
Nobs and Snobs
Noble
Noble Soul
Noblesse Oblige (French)
Noctes Ambrosianæ
Noctuas Athenas Ferre
Nod