The Green Knight: History, Myth, and Modern Shame -- A Historian's View
Historiansplaining: A historian tells you why everything you know is wrong
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The Last Strike, Consider It Served
The poem describes how gawayne's return to camelot is understood. When he arrives back at the court, happiness cannoned through the echoing halls. He had bound his belt like a baldric slantwise as a sash from shoulder to side,. laced in a knot looped below his left arm, sign that his honour was stained by sin. It says so he winds through the wilds of the world once more, gawaine on gringolit under a roof, sometimes and sometimes roughing it. And in valleys and vales, had adventures and victories, but time is too tight to tell where they went.
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