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	Gawain - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Gawain is commonly considered identical with the Welsh hero known as Gwalchmei ap Gwyar (Gwalchmei, son of Gwyar), who appears in the Welsh Triads and in Culhwch and Olwen, an Arthurian romance associated with the Mabinogion.
		Gawain is a major character in the Arthurian section of Geoffrey of Monmouth's Historia Regum Britanniae, where he is a superior warrior and potential heir to the throne until he is tragically struck down by Mordred's evil forces, and the sheer amount of later works featuring him speaks to his popularity.
		In the Prose Tristan and the Post-Vulgate Cycle Gawain is a villain and a murderer.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Gawain (1227 words)

	Sir Gawain
		Gawain was a prominent character in all five romances of Chretien de Troyes, yet his role was secondary to the chief hero of each of the romance.
		Gawain distinguished himself in the military training, at the age of 15, he was dubbed as a knight, receiving his arms on Equirria, a long festival dedicated to Mars, the Roman god of war, between February 27 and March 14.
		Gawain and his wife spend three years living happily in the castle, but Gawain now decided that it was time to return to his country, so he informed Arthur that he was still alive.
	www.timelessmyths.com /arthurian/gawain.html (12502 words)

	Free Essay Analysis Of Sir Gawain (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-17)
		Sir Gawain and the Green Knight was first edited and published in 1839 by Madden, whose entire name in uncertain.
		Sir Gawain is introduced as a Knight of the Round Table in King Authur's court in Camelot during the fifteen day Christmas and New Year's celebration.
		Sir Gawain is supposed to be a flawless knight.
	mail.echeat.com /essay.php?t=25535 (2685 words)

	Amazon.com: Sir Gawain and the Green Knight, Pearl, Sir Orfeo: Books: J.R.R. Tolkien (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-17)
		SIR GAWAIN AND THE GREEN KNIGHT, PEARL, and SIR ORFEO are masterpieces of a remote and exotic age--the age of chivalry and wizards, knights and holy quests.
		Sir Gawain and the Green Knight presents a late Arthurian legend which was penned in a relatively obscure West-Midland dialect of early Middle English.
		Sir Gawain was everything a knight should be considering the fact that he's not perfect due to the fact that he's human.
	www.amazon.com /Gawain-Green-Knight-Pearl-Orfeo/dp/0345277600 (2106 words)

	Quest of Sir Gawain (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-17)
		Sir Gawain ends up taking up the offer and is amazed and astonished when the Green Knight, picks up his cut-off head and rides out of Camelot, calling for Sir Gawain to meet him at the Green Chapel in a years time.
		Sir Gawain goes through a ritual process of arming himself, and emphasis is on the shield, which is decked with the pentangle a symbol of the five senses, five fingers, five wounds of Christ, five joys of Mary, five senses.
		The third time, the blow hits Sir Gawain's shoulder, scratching him - this is for the third temptation, when Sir Gawain would not be seduced, but for love of his own life still broke his agreement with his host and kept the girdle.
	www.smokylake.com /Christy/myths/gawain.htm (1296 words)

	EBK: Arthurian Literature: Sir Gawain
		Sir Gawain was the son of King Lot of Orkney and/or Lothian.
		Gawain is known to have had many lovers - at least 21 are named in literary sources - and is given different wives in various tales: Amurfina, the daughter of Sorcha or of the Carl of Carlisle.
		Sir Gawain was killed in the fighting and was buried in the castle chapel, where his skull was kept for many years.
	www.earlybritishkingdoms.com /bios/gawain.html (947 words)

	Sir Gawain and the Green Knight
		Gawain and the fair lady sat together, even in the midst of the board, when the feast was served; and so throughout all the hall each sat in his degree, and was served in order.
		Gawain would bid his host farewell, but the lord took him by the hand, and led him to his own chamber beside the hearth, and there he thanked him for the favour he had shown him in honouring his dwelling at that high season, and gladdening his castle with his fair countenance.
		Sir Gawain who had thus won grace of his life, rode through wild ways on Gringalet; oft he lodged in a house, and oft without, and many adventures did he have and came off victor full often, as at this time I cannot relate in tale.
	www.lib.rochester.edu /CAMELOT/sggk.htm (17504 words)

	Amazon.co.uk: Sir Gawain and the Green Knight: WITH Pearl and Sir Orfeo: Books: J.R.R. Tolkien (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-17)
		Sir Gawain and the Green Knight by a C Cawley
		"Sir Gawain" is a romance, a fairy-tale for adults, full of life and colour; but it is also much more than this, being at the same time a powerful moral tale which examines religious and social values.
		Sir Gawain and the Green Knight is a tale of one of King Arthur's knight, Sir Gawain.
	www.amazon.co.uk /Sir-Gawain-Green-Knight-Pearl/dp/0261102591 (828 words)

	Sir Gawain: An Introduction (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-17)
		Above: Gawain sneaks past knights who are supposedly guarding the Queen of Norgales into her bedroom, where he enjoys one of his many amours.
		Sir Gawain and the Carl of Carlisle, Gawain comes to the castle of a knight who executes guests for the slightest deviance from his strictest orders.
		The Marriage of Sir Gawain and Dame Ragnell, whilst out hunting, King Arthur was separated from the rest of the hunting party and was confronted by a knight from whom the king has taken lands to give to Gawain.
	www.moval.edu /Faculty/adderleym/Arthur/intro-gawain.htm (2271 words)

	Gawain website
		In Sir Gawain and The Green Knight, the character of Sir Gawain is skillfully brought to life by the unknown author.
		In this first meeting, through Gawain's own words, we begin to see him as the noble knight he is. Gawain has cleverly chosen his most courteous words to release Arthur from this predicament and restore the reputation of the knights of the Round Table.
		However, Gawain is concentrating so hard on being courteous and remaining true to Bercilak that he is tricked into taking a girdle of green silk from her and thus betraying Bercilak.
	csis.pace.edu /grendel/proj2b/gawain.html (1319 words)

	Sir Gawain and the Green Knight Summary & Essays - Unknown
		The Gawain poet is part of a movement known as the “alliterative revival” of the thirteenth century.
		Gawain is mentioned in Geoffrey of Monmoth’s History of the Kings of England as Arthur’s nephew and as the greatest of British warriors.
		Gawain appears to be foremost of Arthur’s knights, just as he was at the beginning of the cycle.
	www.enotes.com /sir-gawain (2444 words)

	GAWAIN: TEXTS, IMAGES, BASIC INFORMATION
		Gawain is generally said to be the nephew of Arthur.
		In the English tradition, however, it is much more common for Gawain to be the principal hero and the exemplar of courtesy and chivalry, as he is in Sir Gawain and the Green Knight and the other Arthurian romances of the Alliterative Revival.
		Sir Gawain and the Green Knight, translated by Jessie Weston
	www.lib.rochester.edu /camelot/gawmenu.htm (295 words)

	On Sir Gawain and the Green Knight (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-17)
		Gawain's double failure to honour the rules of the game between him and his host and to take the axe blow without flinching expose the limits of his virtue and teach him something important about himself.
		What Bertilak is offering here is an interesting possibility for Gawain to explore the complexities of what he has been through and to learn from it, to make, if you like, the personal acquaintance of Morgan the Fay and her agents and thus extend his understanding of the world, himself, and his own culture.
		Gawain's reaction is, as I've already said, defensive in the extreme: he wants no more intercourse (social or otherwise) which a world which has taught him his own limits.
	www.mala.bc.ca /~johnstoi/introser/gawain.htm (3564 words)

	Sir Gawain the Courteous
		Sir Gawain was the most courteous knight in King Arthur's court, as well as the strictest upholder of chivalry.
		He mounted his equally green stead, pointed his head at Sir Gawain, and told him to be at a lonely chapel exactly one year from that moment to take his turn at receiving a blow from an axe.
		Sir Gawain was indeed tempted by his host's wife, but he managed to resist her amorous advances for two days.
	www.suite101.com /article.cfm/mythology/37289 (414 words)

	SparkNotes: Sir Gawain and the Green Knight: Key Facts
		Once the Green Knight survives the blow, Gawain has a year and a day before he must seek out the Green Knight to receive the return blow, which will almost surely mean his own death.
		At the castle, Gawain’s courtesy, chastity, and honesty are all tempted.
		Gawain admits his breach of contract in having kept the green girdle and promises to wear the girdle as a banner of his weakness.
	www.sparknotes.com /lit/gawain/facts.html (672 words)

	Sir Gawain and the Green Knight Paper Doll Set
		he work centers on the exploits of the nephew of King Arthur, Sir Gawain, who accepts a challenge and defends the honor of the king by chopping off the head of The Green Knight.
		Gawain is kissed by the Lady the first day; twice by the Lady the second day; three times by the Lady the third day.
		It is put on in the new way, the liripipe binding it to the head, and the ample shoulder part (purposely cut larger than hiterto) made to stand up on the left side of the head like a coxcomb.
	www.gallimauphry.com /PD/gawain/gawain.html (734 words)

	Amazon.ca: Penguin Classics Sir Gawain And The Green Knight: Books: Unknown,Raffel Burton (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-17)
		Gawain's small fault (and indeed, Gawain was portrayed as a virtuous human, but human nonetheless) warrants a very small penalty, but he is deemed upon reporting back to Camelot that he has brought honour upon the whole fellowship of knights.
		The Penguin Classics edition of SIR GAWAIN AND THE GREEN KNIGHT, edited by J.A. Burrow, is fantastic for motivated readers who wish to approach the text as it really is, and delve deep into its symbolism and historical references.
		"Sir Gawain" is one of a number of stories that have come down to us from the Medieval period that one cannot help feeling has a wealth of hidden meaning behind it.
	www.amazon.ca /Penguin-Classics-Gawain-Green-Knight/dp/0140422951 (1402 words)

	Arthurian Romance I: Sir Gawain and the Green Knight (Study Questions)
		At the end of the poem, the Green Knight declares that Gawain is the best of all Arthurian knights; this opinion is shared by the Arthurian court but not by Gawain.
		He aspires to win her love by proving his worthiness, chivalric merit, etc. through "love service"--doing her will and trying to help her and be worthy of her regardless of her treatment of him.
		Consider that Gawain, Arthur's nephew, is a distinctly ENGLISH hero; Lancelot du Lac is a FRENCH knight.
	cla.calpoly.edu /~dschwart/engl512/sggk.html (971 words)

	Sir Gawain
		Gawain is living in the world where courtly love is expected, but his relationship to the art of courtly love is an uneasy one.
		He is essentially forced into a courtly love situation by the actions of his hostess, and his time spent with the lady is more comic than romantic.
		Thus, you should not look for a classic representation of courtly love in this poem, though you must be aware of the tradition in order to understand the situation in which Gawain finds himself.
	spider.georgetowncollege.edu /english/allen/gawain2.htm (1072 words)

	The Language of Sir Gawain and the Green Knight
		However, we know that this manuscript contains a copy of the poem, and Sir Gawain and the Green Knight was probably first composed sometime between the years 1375-1399 (scholars differ on the dating).
		However, some scholars have argued that the very process whereby this took place meant that the regional poetic style (alliterative verse) and regional interests of the Gawain-poet and his peers were doomed to be relegated to footnotes of literary history.
		Hence, from the fifteenth century on, few copies of their poems were made, which is why we only have one copy of Sir Gawain and the Green Knight.
	www.csun.edu /~sk36711/WWW2/engl443/gawainlang.htm (868 words)

	Sir Gawain and The Green Knight: Web Resources
		A Character Analysis of Sir Gawain - Joseph Sera
		Summary of Sir Gawain and the Green Knight - Ai-Qiao Shi
		Critics on the Character of Gawain - Compiled by Kim Neininger
	www.luminarium.org /medlit/gawainre.htm (136 words)

	Between the Lions . Gawain's Word \| PBS Kids (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-17)
		It builds what some experts call phonemic awareness, a must for learning to read and spell.
		There are 14 different sets of Gawain's Words, each with five brave challengers.
		—Sir Est, Sir Ing, Sir Ug, Sir Ap, Sir An, and many more—can be found in our Games area.
	pbskids.org /lions/games/gawain2.html (117 words)

	Sir Gawain and the Green Knight
		Gawain went to the warrior, weapon in hand,
		He turned to Sir Gawain and tactfully said,
		Gawain and the king together, while good men served them
	alliteration.net /gawain1.htm (2915 words)

	The Pearl Poet: Sir Gawain and the Green Knight (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-17)
		The Pearl Poet: Sir Gawain and the Green Knight
		Book II, Part 2 - Gawain's at a Strange Castle
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	alliteration.net /Pearl.htm (33 words)

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