The story is set in at christmas time, the court of king arthur. A huge night dressed all in green, clatters his wayn into the hall. Arthur springs up and patitly says, i'll challenge you what you want. But gawaine leaps up and says, no, i will take him on. And he issues this challenge, if you will come to me in a year and a day's time and receive a blow from me in return,. From his axe, from his axe. Jta run that by me an so er, whichit may be what i would say if i was in that situation. Hold on a minute, mister greennight
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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