If you're watching the video version, you'll see this. This is the original middle english version. While i of hor service service say, yow, no more for oh, we may well wit. You can see that this is not english as we know it to day. But don't worry, we're going to read from the modernized version. Right. So let's find line a hundred and 30 now. Have a look at that. Ok, ready? Let's go back through that section again. I'll try and explain it. The king arthur and his knights and all his guests have been celebrating christmas. And this celebration was interrupted by an unusual visitor who
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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