![]() The dainties, and rare the meats, so great was the plenty they might Song and lute, that many a heart was uplifted at the melody. Of trumpets and waving of banners, with the sound of drums and pipes, of Then they bare the first course with the blast These were worthily served on the daïs, and at the lower tables And at the end of the table wasīishop Bawdewyn, and Ywain, King Urien’s son, sat at the other sideĪlone. Other side sat Agravain, à la dure main both were the king’s There good Sir Gawain was seated by Guinevere the queen, and on her Thus the king sat before the high table, and spake of many things and Therefore on that New Year tide, he abode, fair of face, on the throne, Such was the king’sĬustom when he sat in hall at each high feast with his noble knights, Joust with another, that they might set their lives in jeopardy, oneĪgainst another, as fortune might favour them. Or till some knight should seek of him leave to Never eat upon an high day till he had been advised of some knightlyĭeed, or some strange and marvellous tale, of his ancestors, or of arms, Sit long at meat, so worked upon him his young blood and his wild brain.Īnd another custom he had also, that came of his nobility, that he would Gladness was he, even as a child he liked not either to lie long, or to Grey eyes, a fairer woman might no man boast himself of having seen.īut Arthur would not eat till all were served, so full of joy and Studded with costly gems fair she was to look upon, with her shining Silken was her seat, with aįair canopy over her head, of rich tapestries of Tars, embroidered, and Them down to the feast in fitting rank and order, and Guinevere the Mirth till it was time to get them to meat. Wroth, that may ye well believe!), and the maidens laughed and made Rich gifts, the one to the other (and they that received them were not And they greeted each other for the New Year, and gave The king with all his knights, when the service in the chapel had been Was served on the high table to all the noble guests, and thither came Now the New Year had but newly come in, and on that day a double portion Heaven, and the king himself of such fame that it were hard now to name This fair folk were in their youth, the fairest and most fortunate under ![]() Noble guests, the bravest of knights and the loveliest of ladies, andĪrthur himself was the comeliest king that ever held a court. Mirth that men could devise, song and glee, glorious to hear, in theĭaytime, and dancing at night. Ride forth to joust and tourney, and again back to the court to makeĬarols for there was the feast holden fifteen days with all the There they held rich revels with gay talk and jest one while they would Lord and lovely lady, and all the noble brotherhood of the Round Table. King Arthur lay at Camelot upon a Christmas-tide, with many a gallant In the letter, as it hath long been known in the land. While, I will tell it even as it stands in story stiff and strong, fixed And if ye will listen to me, but for a little Have heard tell, therefore will I set forth a wondrous adventure thatįell out in his time. In any other but of all British kings Arthur was the most valiant, as I The kingdom of Britain, wherein have been war and waste and wonder, andĪnd in that kingdom of Britain have been wrought more gallant deeds than Lombardy and Felix Brutus sailed far over the French flood, and founded Turned him to Tuscany and Langobard raised him up dwellings in ![]() The city his own name, which it bears even to this day) and Ticius Æneas and his kin sailed forth to become princes and patrons of Weston in 1898.Īfter the siege and the assault of Troy, when that burg was destroyedĪnd burnt to ashes, and the traitor slain for his treason, the noble ![]() Note: This translation into modern prose was conducted by the medieval scholar Jessie L. Over the course of the tale, Sir Gawain endures a test of chivalry, loyalty and honor –all stemming from a mysterious guest’s challenge at a New Years’ Eve feast. The tale is one of many stemming from Arthurian legend, and involves a knight of King Arthur’s Round Table. Sir Gawain and the Green Knight is a chivalric romance penned by an unknown author in Middle English.
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