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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.
Perhaps the best-known and most developed iteration of the beheading game in medieval romance, however, is the late 14th century poem Sir Gawain and the Green Knight. [30] [31] The anonymous Gawain-poet combines the beheading game with another type of exchange, the temptation. [32]
In many romances, Gawain is depicted as a model for chivalric attributes. [46] In Sir Gawain and the Green Knight, for example, where he is described as "this fine father of breeding", [47] Gawain receives the kisses of Lady Bertilak with discretion, at once not wanting to insult her by refusing her advances and not wanting to betray the ...
Chivalry, or the chivalric language, is an informal and varying code of conduct developed in Europe between 1170 and 1220. It is associated with the medieval Christian institution of knighthood , with knights being members of various chivalric orders , [ 1 ] [ 2 ] and with knights' and gentlemen's behaviours which were governed by chivalrous ...
The Gawain Poet (fl. c. 1375 –1400), manuscript painting (as the father in Pearl) The "Gawain Poet" (/ ˈ ɡ ɑː w eɪ n, ˈ ɡ æ-,-w ɪ n, ɡ ə ˈ w eɪ n / GA(H)-wayn, -win, gə-WAYN; [1] [2] fl. late 14th century), or less commonly the "Pearl Poet", [3] is the name given to the author of Sir Gawain and the Green Knight, an alliterative poem written in 14th-century Middle English.
There is a connection between the Order of the Garter and the Middle English poem Sir Gawain and the Green Knight (late 14th century). The motto is inscribed, as hony soyt qui mal pence, at the end of the text in the sole surviving manuscript in the British Library, albeit in a later hand. [13]
Sir Gawain, by courteously complying with the Carle's every request, has broken the spell and ended the dreadful custom of killing. Sir Gawain and his companions ride to King Arthur with an invitation from the Carle for the king to visit his castle. King Arthur makes the journey and he is welcomed with the finest feast imaginable.
The second half of the poem covers a different story: a knight, Sir Galeron of Galloway, claims that King Arthur and Gawain have false possession of his lands, and demands to settle the issue through honourable combat ("I wol fight on a felde - thereto I make feith") [4] Gawain, who takes up the challenge, has the upper hand, and seems about to ...