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	Sir Gawain and the Green Knight Welsh Stories by Margaret Isaac
		Sir Gawain and the Green Knight is an entertaining story which captivates the audience with its unexpected twists and turns of plot, its humour, excitement and compassion.
		Gawain defeats monsters, battles against cold and hunger and finally faces death itself at the hands of the Green Knight.
		The Green Knight is menacing, pagan, uncivil, robust, strong, and courageous.
	www.welshstories.com /gawain (283 words)

	Sir Gawain and the Green Knight
		Although Gawain pretends not to be bothered by the upcoming Quest, all the lords and ladies are silently sorrowful that a knight as worthy as Gawain must go to his doom by receiving the exchange blow from the Green Knight.
		Gawain as a character drives his strength from his belief in Christian and chivalric values, and the shield is the perfect representation of this, protecting him from physical dangers while serving as a reminder of his spiritual and moral beliefs.
		Gawain's fear of mortality is obviously linked to his impending meeting with the Green Knight, and this is where the poet so masterfully connects this story about Gawain in the castle with the larger framework of the first, more imposing story about Gawain and the Green Knight.
	faculty.winthrop.edu /kosterj/ENGL512/sggknotes.htm (12249 words)

	GradeSaver: ClassicNote: Sir Gawain and the Green Knight Study Guide
		His horse is equally decked in ornate green, and the knight himself holds a branch of holly in one hand and a formidable battle-axe in the other.
		Green, as the dominant color in nature, here suggests the natural cycle of rebirth and renewal that is so essential to the concept of the year and, as well, to the character of the Green Knight.
		In fact, the Green Knight is a mixture of the familiar (the civil) and the foreign (the raw).
	www.gradesaver.com /classicnotes/titles/gawain/section3.html (2598 words)

	Sir Gawain and the Green Knight
		The Green Knight wanted one of the knights to use his axe on his own neck; in return the other knight must allow him to cut off the other's head, one day and a year from now.
		The lady tested Gawain' restraint to the limits, because she was one of the fairest in the land.
		Gawain now worn the green girdle as a badge to marked his cowardice, his shame and his broken promise to his host.
	www.timelessmyths.com /arthurian/greenknight.html (1513 words)

	Term paper on Literary analysis: Sir Gawain & the Green Knight
		Sir Gawain and the Green Knight, which was written by an anonymous author towards the end of the 14 th century, is set within the highly renowned, Christian warrior society of the era.
		Basically, the storyline that is vital to bringing the text of Sir Gawain to life is one that is strongly symbolic in terms of the relevance that it casts towards the inevitability of human floundering regardless of exceptional courageousness when it comes to facing certain death.
		Finally, when Gawain does it make it to the green chapel in order to confront the green knight; he can’t bring himself to confront the blow being dealt to him, wavering at the last moment in spite of the fact that he is wearing the ostensibly immortalizing green girdle.
	www.termpapergenie.com /Greenknight.html (1269 words)

	Sir Gawain and the Green Knight: Notes
		Gawain knows the short term better than the long term, and the more he knows, the more he takes on a game mentality; but nothing is fully clear to Gawain, and he is never in complete control.
		Gawain falls: his acceptance of the girdle is not a fault; his hiding of it is a potential fault; his actual withholding of it from Bertilak is his fall.
		Green is, actually, rather complex in its symbolic uses: on the one hand, it suggests vegetation, Nature, "natural magic," the Earth, and what is "untamed"; on the other, it suggests sickness and decay; it is opposed (in the medical manuals) to red, which promotes healing.
	faculty.uca.edu /~jona/second/ggknotes.htm (2167 words)

	Sir Gawain and the Green Knight
		The knight bore no helm nor hauberk, neither gorget nor breast-plate, neither shaft nor buckler to smite nor to shield, but in one hand he had a holly-bough, that is greenest when the groves are bare, and in his other an axe, huge and uncomely, a cruel weapon in fashion, if one would picture it.
		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.
		The knight turned his steed to the mound, and lighted down and tied the rein to the branch of a linden; and he turned to the mound and walked round it, questioning with himself what it might be.
	www.lib.rochester.edu /CAMELOT/sggk.htm (17504 words)

	Sir Gawain and the Green Knight
		Gawain tales typically involve challenges to the Arthurian court by outlandish males from the wilds of northwest England, or fabulously ugly females from the same region.
		Gawain's identity incorporates all three value systems as he is first guided by chivalric standards in answering the Green Knight's challenge, then dressed in Christian values, most notably in his shield, and finally cast as the expert in love by the Host's Lady.
		Note the Green Knight’s explanation that "that tappe" of the ax on Gawain’s neck was his payment for Gawain’s failure to reveal the girdle—so the neck wound rewards the secret adoption of a female signifier.
	faculty.goucher.edu /eng240/sir_gawain_and_the_green_knight.htm (1569 words)

	Amazon.ca: Sir Gawain and the Green Knight: Books: W.S. Merwin (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Gawain's struggle to remain true to his code is rendered perfectly, and sets a mood of self-doubt that perfectly offsets his outward frivolity.
		He is offered a challenge: The green knight would take a blow to the neck from Gawain, and exactly one year later, the green knight would give Gawain a blow to the neck.
		The story of Gawain and the Green Knight is a foundational one in western civilization, maybe not ranking as high up there as the quest for the grail, but still echoed and repeated in writing (see Iris Murdoch's novel The Green Knight for example).
	www.amazon.ca /Gawain-Green-Knight-W-S-Merwin/dp/0375709924 (1989 words)

	Sir Gawain and the Green Knight
		Sir Ian McKellen is the narrator in this new, contemporary translation by poet Simon Armitage of the poem that has become known as Sir Gawain And The Green Knight.
		But the festivities at Camelot are disrupted by the appearance of a green knight, a weird being whose skin, hair and even horse is green.
		Sam West is Sir Gawain, David Fleeshman is The Green Knight, Deborah McAndrew is The Lady and Conrad Nelson is Arthur/The Porter.
	www.mckellen.com /audio/gawain.htm (382 words)

	Sir Gawain and the Green Knight-MUSEUM PAGE
		Sir Gawain, the youngest of King Arthur's knights, asks to be allowed to stand in for his king.
		Gawain angrily rises and tells the Green Knight that he has had his chance, and that the game is over.
		Gawain is ashamed for his acceptance of the girdle.
	csis.pace.edu /grendel/projs4a/gawain.htm (1423 words)

	Gawain and the green knight - Sir Gawain and the Green Knight < Medieval Literature in the Yahoo
		Sir Gawain And The Green Knight, translated by Simon Armitage.
		Sam West is Sir Gawain, David Fleeshman is The Green Knight, Deborah McAndrew is The Lady and Conrad Nelson is Arthur/The Porter.
		Sir Gawain and The Green Knight - ESSAYS on Sir Gawain and The Green Knight.
	sitelib.cn /acco/gawain-and-the-green-knight.html (612 words)

	Sir Gawain and the Green Knight_The Wedding of Sir Gawain and Dame Ragnell
		Sir Gawain accepts, and lobs off the knight's head, whereupon the decapitated Green Knight proceeds to laugh, place his detached head back on his shoulders, and demand that Gawain "Come to the Green Chapel...
		All that is left is for the Green Knight to identify himself and his prey and claim his victory.
		An illustration from the Gawain MS Cotton Nero A.x at the British Museum: the Green Knight (decapitated) at King Arthur's Court.
	www.uidaho.edu /student_orgs/arthurian_legend/hunt/gawain.html (610 words)

	J.R.R. Tolkien (translator), Sir Gawain and the Green Knight (audio)
		"Sir Gawain and the Green Knight" survives in one manuscript, and the manuscript evidence does not indicate whether the poem was written to be read aloud.
		Gawain takes up the challenge, does the deed, and is astonished to see the Green Knight pick up his severed head and ride off, reminding Gawain of the agreement.
		One year later, Gawain heads off to the Green Chapel, but on his way has adventures in the court of a noble who lives near the Green Chapel, before going to what he believes to be his lethal assignation.
	www.greenmanreview.com /book/book_tolkien_greenknight.html (1010 words)

	Green knight - Powell's Books - Sir Gawain and the Green Knight (Penguin Classics
		Then the Green Knight said to the king, "Your daughter was sad, He took it, however, and thanked the Green Knight for his kind and hospitable reception.
		The story of Gawain and the Green Knight, follows a theme that is to be found in other Celtic myths, and is typical of the supernatural testing of warriors.
		SIR GAWAIN AND THE GREEN KNIGHT: A POEM FOR HENRY OF GROSMONT
	listmega.com /?q=green-knight (1312 words)

	sir gawain and the green knight - Books, journals, articles @ The Questia Online Library (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Sir Gawain and the Green Knight: A Poem for Henry of Grosmont?
		SIR GAWAIN AND THE GREEN KNIGHT: A POEM FOR HENRY OF GROSMONT...dating the Middle English poem Sir Gawain and the Green Knight (GGK) and concluded that the...NOTES (1) W. Cooke, `Sir Gawain and the Green Knight.
		The Duke of Clarence and the Earls of March: Garter Knights and Sir Gawain and the Green Knight
	www.questia.com /SM.qst?act=search&keywordsSearchType=1000&keywords=sir-gawain-and-the-green-knight (1789 words)

	Sir gawain the green knight
		Only Gawain has the courage to meet the challenge and he strikes off the Green Knight's head with a single blow, only to have the Green Knight pick up his head, mount his horse and ride out of the court.
		There he is welcomed by Sir Bertilak and his wife and entertained until the morning of the appointment, his host having assured him that the place set for the meeting, the Green Chapel, is close by.
		And we see him again as the Green Knight, once more seemingly the bringer of death, setting before Gawain a death which once again is not what it seems, for the tests are over and the outcome decided even as Gawain believes that his real test is about to begin.
	www.whitedragon.org.uk /articles/gawain.htm (2937 words)

	The Grey Havens :: View topic - Sir Gawain and the Green Knight
		Sir Gawain was a knight of the Round Table and nephew of King Arthur.
		Sir Gawain and the Green Knight is a Romance composed in the fourteenth century about Sir Gawains meeting with the Green Knight a poem which Tolkien Translated from the Old English and of which he also made a very groundbreaking analysis in his paper entitled "Sir Gawain and the Green Knight".
		Since the green knight in the story is a shapeshifter it has been guessed that he is the character upon which Tolkien based the character of Beorn.
	tolkien.cro.net /board/viewtopic.php?t=850 (347 words)

	Amazon.com: Sir Gawain and the Green Knight: Books: W.S. Merwin (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Sir Gawain and the Green Knight, Pearl, Sir Orfeo by J.R.R. Tolkien
		The story of Gawain and the Green Knight is a foundational one in western civilization, maybe not ranking as high up there as the quest for the grail, but still echoed and repeated in writing (see Iris Murdoch's novel The Green Knight for example).
		Gawain's struggle to remain true to his code is rendered perfectly, and sets a mood of self-doubt that perfectly offsets his outward frivolity.
	www.amazon.com /Gawain-Green-Knight-W-S-Merwin/dp/0375709924 (2356 words)

	Sir Gawain and the Green Knight
		SGGK appears in the unique manuscript in the British Library, Cotton Nero A. x, written at the end of the 14th century in a Southwest Midland dialect.
		Gawain bests the Green Knight but falls victim to the Lady, who manages to make him break his troth.
		In the encounter the knight's and lady's roles are reversed: she's the aggressor, he the fortress.
	www.stanford.edu /class/engl165b/72green.html (385 words)

	Simon Armitage translates Sir Gawain and the Green Knight for a modern audience \| Review \| Guardian Unlimited Books
		Sir Gawain and the Green Knight is one of the finest surviving examples of Middle English poetry, but little is known about the author - except hints that he came from the north of England.
		Not all poems are stories, but Sir Gawain and the Green Knight most certainly is. After briefly anchoring its historical credentials in the siege of Troy, the poem quickly delivers us into Arthurian Britain, at Christmas time, with the knights of the Round Table in good humour and full voice.
		The Gawain poet had never heard of climate change and was not a prophet anticipating the onset of global warming.
	books.guardian.co.uk /review/story/0,,1972874,00.html (3486 words)

	Amazon.co.uk: Sir Gawain and the Green Knight (Everyman's Library (Paper)): Books: a C Cawley,J J Anderson (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Sir Gawain and the Green Knight by Simon Armitage
		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.
		Though Gawain is tempted, he keeps to his side of the bed, and travels on to meet the green man for a beheading game, unaware that he has already passed the test.
	www.amazon.co.uk /Gawain-Green-Knight-Everymans-Library/dp/0460875108 (1226 words)

	Arthurian Romance I: Sir Gawain and the Green Knight (Study Questions)
		Recall SGGK is thought to be by the same author as The Pearl; this unknown author is therefore referred to as both the "Pearl Poet" and the "Gawain Poet." Know period when this poet was active (see headnote to SGGK, NA 156).
		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.
		SGGK is thought to be the work of the same poet who produced The Pearl.
	cla.calpoly.edu /~dschwart/engl512/sggk.html (971 words)

	On Sir Gawain and the Green Knight (Site not responding. Last check: )
		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.
		This fact might suggest that the Green Knight is some diabolical agent hostile to the civilized world of the Round Table and that the world of Morgan the Fay and her brother Arthur are locked into some permanent enmity.
		In Arthur's court, greenness is a nice colour to have on a decorative piece of clothing—there seems to be little sense that the colour green, as represented in the person of Green Knight or his wife's girdle, might be a reminder of something more important than courtly clothing.
	www.mala.bc.ca /~johnstoi/introser/gawain.htm (3564 words)

	The Green Knight ~ Other Characters in Arthurian Legend \| King Arthur & The Knights of the Round Table (Site not responding. Last check: )
		The Green Knight was a character featured in the classic poem Sir Gawain and the Green Knight (fourteenth century) and its derivative The Green Knight (c.
		The Green Knight turned out to be the lord with whom he had been staying and he said he would not have cut Gawain at all had the latter told him about the lace.
		The Green Knight may have been the Green Man, a wild man featured on inn signboards whose effigy was carried in civic processions.
	www.kingarthursknights.com /others/greenknight.asp (345 words)

	Amazon.com: Sir Gawain and the Green Knight (Penguin Classics): Books: Anonymous,Brian Stone (Site not responding. Last check: )
		The poet alternates scenes of the hunt in the forest with softer struggles in Gawain's bedchamber, as he is assaulted most delicately but insistently by the Lady of the manor, who seems enamored of her husband's guest and oblivious to her reputation.
		Gawain is hard pressed not to betray either the laws of chivalry toward the Lady or the lavish hospitality of the Lord.
		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.
	www.amazon.com /Gawain-Green-Knight-Penguin-Classics/dp/0140440925 (2383 words)

	Amazon.ca: Sir Gawain and The Green Knight: Books: Keith Harrison,Helen Cooper (Site not responding. Last check: )
		However, during her process of explaining the elements of the book and the character of Sir Gawain to the reader, Cooper reveals the unfolding plot of the novel.
		Keith Harrison's translation of Sir Gawain and the Green Knight is a masterful classic that creates a new world in the reader's mind dating back to the times of Arthur's Round Table.
		Sir Gawain and the Green Knight, with its translation by Keith Harrison (Oxford University Press 1998), is an enjoyable, as well as intellectually stimulating, book.
	www.amazon.ca /Gawain-Green-Knight-Keith-Harrison/dp/0192833340 (2141 words)

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