Gawaine has an axe. The green knight gets to have a go at him. He bows his head and s his hair back to expose his neck. This is the middle english. Now, i'm not very good at reading middle english. It's difficult. But the lerehi de covre, his long locks he laid over his crown, let the naked neck to the note sho in readiness. That means and e. If you listen to simon armiter's version, let me i sir, lines 415. In the standing position, he prepared to be struck. Bent forward, revealing a flash of green flesh as he heaped his hair to the crown of his head
A conversation with my dad about a great medieval adventure story originally written in middle English and updated and translated into modern English by Simon Armitage. Dad talks about the origin of this story, its connection to the history of the English language, and the poetic devices used in the writing. In the second half I read a summarised version of the story and some verses from Armitage's modernised version.
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