'
Sir Gawain and the Green Knight' may very fittingly bring to a close our hasty survey of the entire Norman-French period, a period mainly of formation, which has left no literary work of great and permanent fame, but in which, after all, there were some sincere and talented writers, who have fallen into forgetfulness rather through the untoward accidents of time than from lack of genuine merit in themselves.
And when his neighbour, Sir Kay, arguing with Sir Percivale on current form, appealed to him to back up his statement that Sir Gawain, though a workman-like middle-weight, lacked the punch, he did not answer, though the subject was one on which he held strong views.
'Sir Gawain, this Court would be greatly indebted to you if--'
Sir Gawain said he had strained a muscle at the last tournament.
On familiar ground, Moll looks at Trevisa's criticisms of Gerald of Wales and Higden's attitude to Arthur, and Wyntoun's Original Chronicle, the Alliterative Morte Arthure,
Sir Gawain and the Green Knight, and The Awntyrs off Arthure (which Moll dates to the fourteenth century and wrongly sets in Arthur's nine-year French peace).
Wirral at that time was largely a forest, and parts of it were owned by Arthur's nephew,
Sir Gawain.
Sir Gawain and the Green Knight and Petrarch's Ascent of Mount Ventoux have both been held up as marking pivotal stages in the development of naturalism in landscape descriptions.
Sir Gawain and the Green Knight has long been a favourite epic tale of mine: it combines romantic Arthurian legend, good versus evil, moral undertones and great adventure.
Thursday
Sir Gawain And The Green Knight BBC Radio 4 Extra, 11.15am Sir Ian McKellen narrates the romantic verse from Arthurian legend.
The brewery operates three pubs in Wales; The Waterguard in Cardiff, Ye Olde Murenger House in Newport, and The
Sir Gawain and The Green Knight in Connah's Quay.
Kevin West, with his "Tokens of Sin, Badges of Honor: Julian of Norwich and
Sir Gawain and the Green Knight" (69.1 (2017): 2-16).
Sir Gawain - (Arthurian legend) a nephew of Arthur and one of the knights of the Round Table