Sir Gawain and the Green Knight, part 1

The legendary court of King Arthur and the knights of the round table at Camelot are at the centre of this tale. It is not an epic but a romance. Yet even still its opening lines court comparison between the heroism of one of those knights, Sir Gawain, and the heroism of the epic poems.

The setting is in the high middle ages, and the Christian poet is, like in the much earlier poem Beowulf, employing monsters to test the mettle of his hero. But unlike in Beowulf, the culture is meant to be Christian, not pagan, and here the paganism of the monsters serve as a rebuke to the pride of King Arthur and his court.

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