One exception is Sir Gawain and the Green Knight, which locates Arthur's court at " Camelot "; however, in Britain, Arthur's court was generally located at Caerleon, or at Carlisle, which is usually identified with the " Carduel " of the French romances.

In Chretien de Troyes's Perceval, Gawain carries Escalibor and it is stated, " for at his belt hung Excalibor, the finest sword that there was, which sliced through iron as through wood " (" Qu ' il avoit cainte Escalibor, la meillor espee qui fust, qu ' ele trenche fer come fust .").

In several early French works such as Chrétien de Troyes ' Perceval, the Story of the Grail and the Vulgate Lancelot Proper section, Excalibur is used by Gawain, Arthur's nephew and one of his best knights.

Furthermore, Monmouth derived many of his character's names from " Culhwch and Olwen "; Sir Kay comes from " Kai "; Sir Bedivere is derived from " Bedwyr "; and lastly Sir Gawain is " Gwalchmei " in Welsh.

The story revolves around the knight Sir Gawain granting to Dame Ragnell, his new bride, what is purported to be wanted most by women: sovereignty.

In line 700, Gawain is said to pass the " Holy Head ", believed by many scholars to be either Holywell or the Cistercian abbey of Poulton in Pulford.

Gawain, for example, has an adventure in the 1973 version which is not a part of the poem between the time he leaves Camelot and the time he arrives at Bertilak's castle.

This opera uses Sir Gawain as the backdrop but refocuses the story on Gawain's female squire, Gwyneth, who is trying to become a knight.

In The poem Sir Gawain and the Green Knight a boar hunt is described, which depicts how dangerous the boar could be to the pack hounds, or raches, which hunted it.

# warrior chivalry, in which a knight's chief duty is to his lord, as exemplified by Sir Gawain in Sir Gawain and the Green Knight and The Wedding of Sir Gawain and Dame Ragnelle

This story is related to the " beheading game " motif appearing in many later works, most famously the 14th-century English poem Sir Gawain and the Green Knight.

But only a few installments later, this has sublimated somewhat into history: when Val saves his new friend Sir Gawain from a robber knight and Gawain decides to take the villain to Camelot for summary judgement from King Arthur, the whole party is at one point attacked by another enormous beast — only this time it ’ s a salt water crocodile !...

When they all at length succeed in killing the beast, Val is outraged that Gawain would still seek to have the man tried before King Arthur.

Val becomes Gawain ’ s squire and almost immediately accompanies him on a quest, during which Gawain is captured and Val must use his wits — smiling and laughing the whole time — to free his mentor.

On the trip, Gawain is seriously wounded, and the large panel where Val finally gets him back to Camelot is Foster ’ s first genuine visual show-stopper in the strip.

Such is the case in the Middle English romance The Awntyrs off Arthure ( The Adventures of Arthur ), in which the ghost of Guinevere's mother appears to her daughter and Gawain in Inglewood Forest.

Here, " Artus de Bretania " and Isdernus approach a tower in which " Mardoc " is holding " Winlogee ", while on the other side Carrado ( probably Caradoc ) fights Galvagin ( Gawain ) while the knights Galvariun and Che ( Kay ) approach.

He is one of a select number of Round Table members to be referred to as one of the greatest knights, most notably in Sir Gawain and the Green Knight.

The original Gawain manuscript, Robert Bruce Cotton | Cotton Nero A. x ..

* Robert J. Blanch, " The Gawain poems: A reference guide 1978-1993 " ( Albany, 2000 )

In 1973, Balsan's film career began when he was cast as Gawain in Robert Bresson's Lancelot Of The Lake ( 1974 ).

When Arthur and Gawain must return to Britain to fight the evil usurper Mordred, Gawain sends a letter to Lancelot asking for aid.

In these texts, Lancelot and his men return to Britain to dispatch Melehan and his brother after receiving a letter from the dying Gawain.

* In Sir Gawain and the Green Knight Gawain returns from his battle with the Green Knight wearing the green girdle " obliquely, like a baldric, bound at his side ,/ below his left shoulder, laced in a knot, in betokening the blame he had borne for his fault.

There have been at least two television adaptations, Gawain and the Green Knight in 1991 and the animated Sir Gawain and the Green Knight in 2002.

The Tyneside Theatre company presented a stage version of Sir Gawain and the Green Knight at the University Theatre, Newcastle at Christmas 1971.

* Sir Gawain and the Green Knight at Archive. org

Early in the story, Valiant arrived at Camelot, where he became friends with Sir Gawain and Sir Tristram.

In Sir Gawain and the Green Knight, for example, Gawain receives the kisses of Lady Bertilak with discretion, at once not wanting to insult her by refusing her advances and not wanting to betray the hospitality of her husband.

When Guinevere is sentenced to burn at the stake and Arthur deploys his best knights to guard the execution, Gawain nobly refuses to take part in the deed even though his brothers will be there.

* Gawain page at the Camelot Project

The fact that Lancelot's name follows Gawain and Erec indicates the presumed importance of the knight at court, even though he did not figure prominently in Chrétien's tale.

The Lady of the Lake sends him to King Arthur's court, where he becomes a knight at the behest of Sir Gawain.

A group of anti-modernist musicians, including composers Frederick Stocken and Keith Burstein calling themselves " The Hecklers ," organised a demonstration for the first night of the 1994 revival of Gawain at the Royal Opera House, London.

Here Gawain partly retains the negative characteristics attributed to him by the later French, and partly retains his earlier positive representations, creating a character seen by some as inconsistent, and by others as a believably flawed hero.

* Casey Finch, " The Complete Works of the Gawain Poet " ( Berkeley, Los Angeles and Oxford, 1993 ) a parallel text with an earlier edition of the Andrew, Waldron and Peterson edition, above

Ockham and his works have been discussed as a possible influence on several late medieval literary figures and works, especially Geoffrey Chaucer, but also Jean Molinet, the Gawain Poet, François Rabelais, John Skelton, Julian of Norwich, the York and Townely Plays, and Renaissance romances.

Scholars are not entirely convinced that the later character of Gawain is derived from the Welsh Gwalchmei ap Gwyar, but later Welsh writers clearly thought this was the case ; the name " Gwalchmei " consistently substitutes for " Gawain " in Cymric translations and adaptations of foreign works, such as the Welsh Romances of the Mabinogion.

Several later works expand on Geoffrey's mention of Gawain's boyhood spent in Rome, the most important of which is the anonymous Medieval Latin romance The Rise of Gawain, Nephew of Arthur, which describes his birth, boyhood and early adventures leading up to his knighting by his uncle.

Gawain unwittingly fights Ywain, from Chrétien's Yvain, or the Knight of the Lion | Knight of the Lion An influx of romances written in French appeared in the wake of Chretien ’ s works, and in these Gawain was characterized variously.

He is the hero of one of the greatest works of Middle English literature, Sir Gawain and the Green Knight, where he is portrayed as an excellent, but human, knight.

These glowing portraits of Gawain all but ended with Sir Thomas Malory's Le Morte d ' Arthur, which is based mainly, but not exclusively, on French works from the Vulgate and Post-Vulgate Cycles.

The three other works found in the same manuscript as Pearl ( commonly known as Sir Gawain and the Green Knight, Pearl, and Cleanness or Purity ) are often considered to be written by the same author.

According to Geoffrey, Igraine also bore a daughter Anna ( referred to as Morgause in other works ) to Uther Pendragon, this Anna later becoming the mother of Gawain and Mordred.

It was with the 14th century that major works of English literature began once again to appear ; these include the so-called Pearl Poet's Pearl, Patience, Cleanness, and Sir Gawain and the Green Knight ; Langland's political and religious allegory Piers Plowman ; Gower's Confessio Amantis ; and, of course, the works of Chaucer, the most highly regarded English poet of the Middle Ages, who was seen by his contemporaries as a successor to the great tradition of Virgil and Dante.

Piers is considered by many critics to be one of the early great works of English literature along with Chaucer's Canterbury Tales and Sir Gawain and the Green Knight during the Middle Ages.

Outside of his Middle-earth works, Tolkien also worked on alliterative modern English translations of several Middle English poems by the Pearl Poet: Sir Gawain and the Green Knight, Pearl, and Sir Orfeo.

The three other works found in the same manuscript as Pearl ( commonly known as Sir Gawain and the Green Knight, Patience, and Cleanness or Purity ) are often considered to be written by the same author.

The three other works found in the same manuscript as Pearl ( commonly known as Sir Gawain and the Green Knight, Patience, and Pearl ) are often considered to be written by the same author.

Some time after the Norman Conquest, Middle English dialects emerged and were later found in such works as the Ormulum and the writings of the Gawain poet.

It was with the fourteenth century that major works of English literature began once again to appear ; these include the so-called Pearl Poet's Pearl, Patience, Cleanness, and Sir Gawain and the Green Knight ; Langland's political and religious allegory Piers Plowman ; Gower's Confessio Amantis ; and the works of Chaucer, the most highly regarded English poet of the Middle Ages, who was seen by his contemporaries as a successor to the great tradition of Virgil and Dante.