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...Written in the 14th century by the Gawain poet, 'Pearl' is an elegiac poem reflecting on the death of a young daughter, pictured as a pearl lost in a garden. It is considered a masterpiece of Middle English verse, incorporating both the older tradition of alli...

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...Sir Gawain and the Green Knight is a late 14th-century Middle English alliterative romance outlining an adventure of Sir Gawain, a knight of King Arthur's Round Table. In the tale, Sir Gawain accepts a challenge from a mysterious...

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...the story of the Green Knight's challenge to Gawayne, and the romance between Sir Gawayne and Lady Elfinheart. The name Gawayne is often also spelled Gawain. (Summary by Betsie Bush)...

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...Published in 1903, Gawayne and the Green Knight is a modern-language retelling of Sir Gawain and the Green Knight, a 14th-century verse romance following a young knight of the Round Table. During Christmas celebrations, a mysterious, entirely green knight presents a challenge to King Arthur's court: that any m...

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...s island should have been named Clas Myrddin: Merlin’s Enclosure. Perhaps Gawain and Lancelot would have enclosed us and the grail might not have be...

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...Queen Guenievre, Gwenhwyvar, and their son Lohot, Lohawt or Llacheu. Messire Gawain is Gwalchmei; Chaus, son of Ywain li Aoutres, Gawns, son of Owein ... ...they thereof, and came back to the court with great ado. But neither Messire Gawain nor Lancelot came thither on that day. But all the other came that... ...e to a stay. “Damsel,” saith he, “Well behoveth me tell you my name. Messire Gawain am I called, King Arthur’s nephew.” “What? are you Messire Gawain?... ...ou Messire Gawain? my heart well told me as much.” “Yea, damsel,” saith he, “Gawain am I.” “God be praised thereof, for so good knight as are you may ... ...that is in this forest whereof is some small peril.” “Damsel,” saith Messire Gawain, “Willingly, at your plea sure.” He returneth with the damsel thr... ... the shield and the brachet she had left there, but much it misliked Messire Gawain of the dam sel that was afoot behind them. “Damsel,” saith Messir... ... knight as men say, betimes will she have done her penance.” “How so?” saith Gawain. “I will tell you,” saith she. “And it shall so be that God bring ... ...d the good King Fisher man is yet in languishment.” “Damsel,” saith Messire Gawain, “God grant me courage and will herein that I may come to do this ... ...wish, whereof may I win worship both of God and of the world.” III. M essire Gawain and the damsels go on their way a great pace through the high fore...

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...y lines in the later romances, but which are absent from Geoffrey’s pages. Gawain, for instance, who is “valiant and of very great moderation,” declar... ...on a right courteous lord, called Lot of Lyones. Of this marriage was born Gawain, the stout knight and noble champion. Uther reigned for a long time ... ...ile, and gave him many another earldom besides. This Lot was the father of Gawain, who as yet was a damoiseau, young and debonair. When Arthur had set... ...thur homage as his lord. Amongst the barons who rode in this adventure was Gawain, the hardy and famous knight, who had freshly come from St. Sulpiciu... ...arness bestowed on him by the Apostle, and wondrously was he praised. This Gawain was a courteous champion, circumspect in word and deed, having no pr... ...is father had sent him to Rome, that he might be schooled the more meetly. Gawain was dubbed knight in the same day as Wavain, and counted himself of ... ...a brave part in the revels, and with him that very frank and gentle knight Gawain, his son. There besides were Stater and Cadual, kings of South Wales... ...ved a peace that lasts over long, since there are uglier things than war.” Gawain over heard these words. “Lord earl,” said he, “by my faith be not f... ...Earl of Oxford, right learned in the law. To these two barons Arthur added Gawain, who had dwelt in Rome for so long a space. This Arthur did by reaso...

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...or king, for church, for lady fair, See that thou fight.” And Bishop Gawain, as he rose, Said—”Wilton! grieve not for thy woes, Disgrace, and... ...he King praised his clerkly skill. Thanks to St. Bothan, son of mine, Save Gawain, ne’er could pen a line: So swore I, and I swear it still, Let my bo...

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...or me yon valley-cottage beckons warm. 95 THE SONG OF COURTESY I When Sir Gawain was led to his bridal-bed, By Arthur’s knights in scorn God-sped:- H... ...eable, Quite unembraceable; With a hog’s bristle on a hag’s chin! - Gentle Gawain felt as should we, Little of Love’s soft fire knew he: But he was th... ...hingly, Almost dyingly, T urned he and kissed her once and again. Like Sir Gawain, gentles, should we? SILENT , ALL! But for pattern agree There’s no... ...! But for pattern agree There’s none like the Knight of Courtesy. III Sir Gawain sprang up amid laces and curls: Kisses are not wasted pearls:- What ... ... the choice shall be. Said she, T wice blest is Courtesy! IV Of gentle Sir Gawain they had no sport, When it was morning in Arthur’s court; What think... ...ould image her features, 161 When nuts behind the hazel-leaf 67 When Sir Gawain was led to his bridal-bed, 95 When the Head of Bran 102 When the S...

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...Gallie, Germanie, Dacie, Imperator. Item in the castle of Dover ye may see Gawaine’s 8 Sir Thomas Malory skull, and Cradok’s mantle: at Winchester th... ...d joy. And King Lot of Lothian and of Orkney then wedded Margawse that was Gawaine’s mother, and King Nentres of the land of Garlot wedded Elaine. All... ...ms on horseback. Then there swore King Lot, a passing good knight, and Sir Gawain’s father, that he would bring five thousand men of arms on horseback... ... the court of King Arthur; and she came richly beseen, with her four sons, Gawaine, Gaheris, Agravine, and Gareth, with many other knights and ladies....

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...whereas the subtilties along the table represented the entire story of Sir Gawain and his Loathly Lady, she contrived to explain the story to him, gre... ...on, Bell the Cat, that— ‘Thanks to St Bothan, son of mine, Save Gawain, ne’er could pen a line,’ the Douglases were far too clever to go wi...

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...to him than his glorious ‘candor,’ his ‘courtesy,’ (surpassing that of Sir Gawain,) and his truly ‘enlightened’ understanding. Indeed, we very much qu...

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...es and demoiselles, tire- women and all, are as near akin as may be to Sir Gawain’s loathly lady.’ ‘Not at least the fair Luxemburg. Did not I see her...

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...APTER XXVI CHAPTER XXVI CHAPTER XXVI CHAPTER XXVI CHAPTER XXVI And Bishop Gawain as he rose, Said, ‘Wilton, grieve not for thy woes, Disgrace and...

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... were truth in anything Said by these three, there came to Cameliard, With Gawain and young Modred, her two sons, Lot’s wife, the Queen of Orkney, Bel... ...ecret things, ’ and signed To those two sons to pass, and let them be. And Gawain went, and breaking into song Sprang out, and followed by his flying ... ...ead, A knight of Arthur, working out his will, To cleanse the world. Why, Gawain, when he came With Modred hither in the summertime, Asked me to tilt... ...ll doom me when I speak. ’ Yet pressing on, though all in fear to find Sir Gawain or Sir Modred, saw nor one Nor other, but in all the listening eyes ... ... bare without a sign Saving the name beneath; and Gareth saw The shield of Gawain blazoned rich and bright, And Modred’s blank as death; and Arthur cr... ...e King alone, and found, and told him all. ‘I have staggered thy strong Gawain in a tilt For pastime; yea, he said it: joust can I. Make me thy kn... ... I thought him Lancelot— He must not pass uncared for. Wherefore, rise, O Gawain, and ride forth and find the knight. Wounded and wearied needs must ... ...ace and frowning heart, a Prince In the mid might and flourish of his May, Gawain, surnamed The Courteous, fair and strong, And after Lancelot, Tristr... ...in, And moved about her palace, proud and pale. 125 Idylls of the King Gawain the while through all the region round Rode with his diamond, wearie...

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...Gallie, Germanie, Dacie, Imperator. Item in the castle of Dover ye may see Gawaine’s 8 Thomas Malory skull, and Cradok’s mantle: at Winchester the Ro... ...d joy. And King Lot of Lothian and of Orkney then wedded Margawse that was Gawaine’s mother, and King Nentres of the land of Garlot wedded Elaine. All... ...ms on horseback. Then there swore King Lot, a passing good knight, and Sir Gawain’s father, that he would bring five thousand men of arms on horseback... ... the court of King Arthur; and she came richly beseen, with her four sons, Gawaine, Gaheris, Agravine, and Gareth, with many other knights and ladies.... .... But King Pellinore bare the wite of the death of King Lot, wherefore Sir Gawaine revenged the death of his father the tenth year after he was made k... ...ke. S o at the interment came King Lot’s wife Margawse with her four sons, Gawaine, Agravaine, Gaheris, and Gareth. Also there came thither King Urien... ... a tomb royal. And on the morn they found letters of gold written, how Sir Gawaine shall revenge his father’s death, King Lot, on the King Pellinore. ... ...word shall slay the man that in the world he loved best, that shall be Sir Gawaine. All this he let write in the pommel of the sword. Then Merlin let ... ... that had sitten therein. But two sieges were void. And so anon came young Gawaine and asked the king a gift. Ask, said the king, and I shall grant it...