The green knight is also carrying a big axe, which is incredibly powerful. He kicks the horse with his stirrups to move on and canters through the crowded hall. The force of that man's fist would be a thunderbolt again. Is is lightning comes down from the skyvery powerful. Yeits like something from a marvel movie, but a thousand years before marvel movies existed or some kind of japanese animae.
Luke reads verses from a modernised version of this medieval poem, considered one of the masterpieces of Middle English literature.
Listen to hear the rhyme and rhythm of the poetry, the descriptive vocabulary and details of the story, with vocabulary explanations and comments from Luke.
This is part 2 of a double episode about this story. Video version available with on-screen text.
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