1/21/2024 0 Comments Gawain poet![]() ![]() The horse has gems in its tail, very beautiful description of his whole outfit and the horse.įrank: But Katie, he's not wearing armor. Yeah, he's dressed completely in green with beautiful embroidery, and he's got some gold accents. Katie: He is green, and he's dressed in green.Įlizabeth: And he's riding a green horse. Just as the nobles begin eating, and as Arthur is waiting for this story, in comes a giant green knight.įrank: Literally green. Katie, we quickly get into that momentous marvel that Arthur's waiting for. Sir Gawain and the Green Knight is that unusual adventure. After 11 days of tournaments and entertainments, King Arthur is celebrating the New Year with his knight and ladies, but he declares he will not begin dinner until he hears of an unusual adventure or some momentous marvel. The story begins at Christmas time, celebrated on the Christian calendar from Christmas Eve until the epiphany. Written by an unknown author as a long, alliterative poem in the mid to late 1300s, Sir Gawain and the Green Knight is one of the many stories that have become part of the Arthurian Legend. Before we get started, I want to give you a quick intro to Sir Gawain and the Green Knight. Thanks for having this conversation with me.įrank: Glad to have you both here. This episode's conversation is about the story, Sir Gawain and the Green Knight, and I'm joined by our Novel Conversation's readers, Katie Smith and Elizabeth Flood. So, if you love hearing a good story, you're in the right place. We introduce you to the characters, we tell you what happens to them, and we read from the book along the way. I'm your host, Frank Lavallo, and for each episode of Novel Conversations, I talk to two readers about one book, and together, we summarize the story for you. His monographs include Sir Gawain and the Green Knight and French Arthurian Romance and An Introduction to the Gawain Poet, and he is also co-editor of The Cambridge Companion to the Arthurian Legend.Frank: Hello, and welcome to Novel Conversations, a podcast about the world's greatest stories. Her books include Justice and Mercy in Piers Plowman and The Language of Jane Austen.Īd Putter teaches at the English Department and the Centre for Medieval Studies of the University of Bristol, where is Professor of Medieval English Literature. Myra Stokes was formerly Senior Lecturer in the Department of English at Bristol University. ![]() Although he is not named as the author of Sir Gawain and the Green Knight, Pearl, Patience, Cleanness, the four works have been attributed to him based on a careful comparison of their language, date and themes. It is believed that he came from south-east Cheshire, an important cultural and economic centre at the time, and he was clearly well-read in Latin, French and English. Little is known about the so-called 'Gawain poet', who wrote during the late fourteenth century. And in moral poems based on stories from the Bible, Cleanness warns against sins of the flesh and of desecration, while Patience encourages readers to endure suffering as God's will. The dream vision of Pearl depicts a bereaved father whose lost child leads him to glimpse heaven. In one of the great tales of medieval literature, Gawain, the noblest knight of King Arthur's court, must keep a deadly bargain with a monstrous knight and resist the advances of his host's beautiful wife. This volume brings together four works of the unknown fourteenth-century poet famous for the Arthurian romance Sir Gawain and the Green Knight, in their original Middle English. ![]() A new volume of the works of the Gawain poet, destined to become the definitive edition for students and scholars. ![]()
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