![]() While he that won was not wrath, that you’ll know.Īll this mirth they made at the meal time. Ladies laughed out loud, though they had lost, Yelled their gifts on high, yield them to hand, Loud cry was there cast of clerics and others,Īnd see the rich run forth to render presents, That day double on the dais was the dole served,įor the king was come with knights into the hall,Īnd chanting in the chapel had chimed to an end. While New Year was so young it was new come in, ‘ Jousted full jollily these gentle knights’ The knights best known under the Christ Himself,Īnd the loveliest ladies that ever life honoured,Īnd he the comeliest king that the court rules.įor all were fair folk and in their first age With all that’s well in the world were they together, With lords and ladies, as liked them all best. With all the meat and mirth men could devise:ĭear din in the daylight, dancing of nights Īll was happiness high in halls and chambers Then carried to court, their carols to make.įor there the feast was alike full fifteen days, ![]() Jousted full jollily these gentle knights, There tourneyed tykes by times full many, With right ripe revel and reckless mirth. Reckoning of the Round Table all the rich brethren, With many lovely lords, of leaders the best, This king lay at Camelot nigh on Christmas I’ll tell it straight, as I in town heard it, If you will list to this lay but a little while, That astonishes sight as some men do hold it,Īn outstanding action of Arthur’s wonders. Than any other I know of, since that same time.īut of all that here built, of Britain the kings,Įver was Arthur highest, as I have heard tell.Īnd so of earnest adventure I aim to show, More flames on this fold have fallen here oft In many a troubled time turmoil that wrought. ![]() On many banks all broad Britain he settlesĪnd when this Britain was built by this baron rich,īold men were bred therein, of battle beloved, ![]() With great business that burg he builds up first,Īnd names it with his name, as now it has Īnd fared over the French flood Felix Brutus Well-nigh of all the wealth in the Western Isles: Who then subdued provinces, lords they became, Was tried for his treachery, the foulest on earth. The traitor who trammels of treason there wrought The burg broken and burnt to brands and ashes, Soon as the siege and assault had ceased at Troy, Various attempts have been made to identify the Pearl Poet with a historical personage but no candidate has been generally accepted. It is seen as an example of work produced during the Alliterative Revival of the period, but by combining alliteration and rhyme leads forward to the flexible rhymed and unrhymed verse of later times. The poem is written in an alliterative style, in variable length stanzas, their lines containing two pairs of stressed syllables, and each stanza ending in a rhyming quatrain. The Pearl Poet appears to have been a Fourteenth Century contemporary of Chaucer, and the dialect in which the poem is written suggests an origin in the English West Midlands. There are many and varied interpretations of the themes and symbols contained in the story, and echoes are found in many other folklore tales and legends. The poem is a lively, atmospheric, and cleverly-paced example of a quest tale, from which the hero emerges chastened and wiser, and contains an interesting mix of Celtic, French and English motifs. The poem tells the story of an incident at the court of King Arthur, involving Sir Gawain’s acceptance of a challenge from the mysterious Green Knight, and leading to a test of his chivalry and courage. Written in Middle English of the late Fourteenth Century, Sir Gawain and the Green Knight survives in a single manuscript which also contains three religious poems including Pearl, written it seems by the same author, who is therefore referred to as The Pearl Poet.
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