Sir Gawain and the Green knight

Beregond · 01-10-2005, 03:19 PM

On one of the other threads someone meantioned the story of Sir Gawain and the green Knight does anybody know who he is or what the stary is about

brownjenkins · 01-10-2005, 03:38 PM

Sir Gawain

Insidious Rex · 01-10-2005, 03:43 PM

It was a medieval romance with rather complex mythological undertones. It was an attempt to use pre-christian archetypes incorporated into a "new" christian world to make commentary about faith, nobility, bravery, honesty, chastity and temptation. It uses classic archetypes like the female as the seducer which is a common theme in both christian and pre christian traditions. It also incorporates the very pre-christian notion of the immortality of plant based nature and the spiritual importance of the hunt while weaving it together within the purely medieval framework of The Quest.

Umm… hope that helped…

inked · 01-10-2005, 03:48 PM

Beregrond,

There is a translation by Tolkien with introduction and notes that may help. It is found in the collections of works by Tolkien and usually references another translation of his PEARL.

ItalianLegolas · 01-10-2005, 04:42 PM

its a knights of the round table sort of thing, and i inked, you took the words right out of my mouth

**Nurvingiel** · 01-10-2005, 05:37 PM

Discuss Arthurian legends here!

Lenya · 01-20-2005, 08:32 AM

I've only heard it mentioned in connection to Tolkien so I thought he wrote it. Who did write it?

01-10-2005, 03:19 PM	#1
Beregond Hobbit Join Date: Jan 2005 Location: England Posts: 28	Sir Gawain and the Green knight On one of the other threads someone meantioned the story of Sir Gawain and the green Knight does anybody know who he is or what the stary is about

01-10-2005, 03:38 PM	#2
brownjenkins Advocatus Diaboli Join Date: Dec 2001 Location: Reality Posts: 3,767	Sir Gawain __________________ Your reality, sir, is lies and balderdash and I'm delighted to say that I have no grasp of it whatsoever.

01-10-2005, 03:43 PM	#3
Insidious Rex Quasi Evil Join Date: Jan 2003 Location: Maryland, US Posts: 4,634	It was a medieval romance with rather complex mythological undertones. It was an attempt to use pre-christian archetypes incorporated into a "new" christian world to make commentary about faith, nobility, bravery, honesty, chastity and temptation. It uses classic archetypes like the female as the seducer which is a common theme in both christian and pre christian traditions. It also incorporates the very pre-christian notion of the immortality of plant based nature and the spiritual importance of the hunt while weaving it together within the purely medieval framework of The Quest. Umm… hope that helped… __________________ "People's political beliefs don't stem from the factual information they've acquired. Far more the facts people choose to believe are the product of their political beliefs." "Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere."

01-10-2005, 03:48 PM	#4
inked Elf Lord Join Date: Oct 2004 Location: sikeston, MO, usa, earth, sol Posts: 3,114	Beregrond, There is a translation by Tolkien with introduction and notes that may help. It is found in the collections of works by Tolkien and usually references another translation of his PEARL. __________________ Inked "Aslan is not a tame lion." CSL/LWW "The new school [acts] as if it required...courage to say a blasphemy. There is only one thing that requires real courage to say, and that is a truism." GK Chesterton "And there is always the danger of allowing people to suppose that our modern times are so wholly unlike any other times that the fundamental facts about man's nature have wholly changed with changing circumstances." Dorothy L. Sayers, 1 Sept. 1941

01-10-2005, 04:42 PM	#5
ItalianLegolas Tolkien-aholic Join Date: Dec 2004 Location: somewhere in the solar system... more specifically NJ... Posts: 712	its a knights of the round table sort of thing, and i inked, you took the words right out of my mouth __________________ What was lost is now found.

01-20-2005, 08:32 AM	#7
Lenya Elentári Join Date: Oct 2004 Location: South Africa Posts: 727	I've only heard it mentioned in connection to Tolkien so I thought he wrote it. Who did write it?