The main author everybody knows from middle english time is geoffrey chaucer. Chaucer was satirist, which is a great traditionin british English writing. And of courser, his canterbury tales are famous. He describes things in great detail and he describes country life. But this isn't around the same time as sir gawaine and the green knight but they're very different. This guy is up in the midlands,. using a different dialect, and it's got a different field to it. It's bleaker. Soer, it's actually a bit of a horror story.
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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