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Gauvain's attributed arms. Gawain is known by different names and variants in different languages. The character corresponds to the Welsh Gwalchmei ap Gwyar (meaning "son of Gwyar"), or Gwalchmai, and throughout the Middle Ages was known in Latin as Galvaginus, Gualgunus (Gualguanus, Gualguinus), Gualgwinus, Walwanus (Walwanius), Waluanus, Walwen, etc.; in Old French (and sometimes English ...
The Marriage of Sir Gawain" is an English Arthurian ballad, collected as Child Ballad 31. [1] Found in the Percy Folio , it is a fragmented account of the story of Sir Gawain and the loathly lady , which has been preserved in fuller form in the medieval poem The Wedding of Sir Gawain and Dame Ragnelle . [ 2 ]
Sir Gawain and the Green Knight: Gawain's horse Guinevak: Gwenhwyvach Culhwch and Olwen, c. 11th century Welsh Triads, Misfortunes of Elphin: Guinevere's half-sister (Queen) Guinevere (Welsh: Gwenhwyfar), (Latin: Guanhumara) Culhwch and Olwen, c. 11th century Many High Queen of Britain, wife of King Arthur, famous for her affair with Lancelot ...
The earliest Welsh Arthurian tradition portrays Arthur as having an extensive family network, including his parents Uther Pendragon and Eigyr (Igraine), wife Gwenhwyfar (Guinevere), nephew Gwalchmei (Gawain), brother, and several sons; his maternal lineage is also detailed, linking him to relatives such as his grandfather.
The following is a list and assessment of sites and places associated with King Arthur and the Arthurian legend in general. Given the lack of concrete historical knowledge about one of the most potent figures in British mythology, it is unlikely that any definitive conclusions about the claims for these places will ever be established; nevertheless it is both interesting and important to try ...
Sir Gawain and the Green Knight is a late 14th-century chivalric romance in Middle English alliterative verse.The author is unknown; the title was given centuries later. It is one of the best-known Arthurian stories, with its plot combining two types of folk motifs: the beheading game and the exchange of winnings.
Gawain and the loathly lady in W. H. Margetson's illustration for Maud Isabel Ebbutt's Hero-Myths and Legends of the British Race (1910) The Wedding of Sir Gawain and Dame Ragnelle (The Weddynge of Syr Gawen and Dame Ragnell) is a 15th-century English poem, one of several versions of the "loathly lady" story popular during the Middle Ages.
Northern Gawain Group is the name given by modern scholars to a group of Arthurian romances from around the fifteenth century, set around the northwestern English region of Cumbria, and in particular Inglewood Forest.