The poem describes the fall of troy and the foundation of rome. It makes a clear connection between king arthur of britain and those heroes from greek and roman mythology. They're about to, they're just about to start eating, when the celebration is interrupted by something extraordinary. And this is where we got to in the last episode,. So i'm now going to open this up. I'm going to skip forwards through the through the introduction, which is very interesting. Gives you lots of interesting background er about the language and other details. We're ging to get through all of that. The first page gives you information about the english metr right?
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.
Episode page with intro transcript & video version https://wp.me/p4IuUx-rj8
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