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The video to the left provides a 20 minute overview of the Arthurian legends throughout time. While viewing add 10 new ideas to your notes about Arthurian legends that you did not write down as part of the bell ringer.
The images below were photos I took at the National British Library in June of 2022. The left is the only surviving manuscript of Sir Gawain and the Green Knight. As you can see the book has fire damage. The British Library has additional images of this document. There is more information about this document found at the British Library's website.
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The classic story that inspired the film starring Dev Patel and Alicia Vikander
“A medieval romance…but also an outlandish ghost story, a gripping morality tale and a weird thriller.… I couldn’t put down Simon Armitage’s compulsively readable...energetic, free-flowing, high-spirited version.” ― Edward Hirsch, New York Times Book Review
The book is available for purchase from Amazon. Local bookstores may have a few copies, but they do not keep a lot in stock.
From the British Library:
Gawain is a story of knightly deeds, sexual enticement and wild landscapes. It tells the story of the young Gawain, who is a knight at the legendary court of King Arthur. The poem opens with a description of a Christmas feast at Camelot, the Arthurian court. During the feast a mysterious knight, with green hair and green skin, riding a green horse, arrives and challenges the assembled crowd to a bizarre game, which sets off a chain of events in which Gawain faces trials and temptations.
A Podcast/ Radio show from the BBC discussing with Simon Armitage the value of Sir Gawain. It takes time to mention how it is different than its contemporary text Chaucer's The Canterbury Tales
A Podcast/ Radio show from the BBC discussing with Simon Armitage the value of Sir Gawain. It takes time to mention how it is different than its contemporary text Chaucer's The Canterbury Tales
In a programme first broadcast in 2018, Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss one of the jewels of medieval English poetry. It was written c1400 by an unknown poet and then was left hidden in private collections until the C19th when it emerged. It tells the story of a giant green knight who disrupts Christmas at Camelot, daring Gawain to cut off his head with an axe if he can do the same to Gawain the following year. Much to the surprise of Arthur's court, who were kicking the green head around, the decapitated body reaches for his head and rides off, leaving Gawain to face his promise and his apparently inevitable death the following Christmas.
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13 Dec 2018
Simon Armitage lectures on the poem Sir Gawain and the Green Knight. Poet Simon Armitage delivers the Michaelmas Term 2018 lecture entitled 'Damned if he Does and Damned if he Doesn't? Dilemmas and Decisions in Sir Gawain and the Green Knight'
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