There is a green man in british folk lore who represents nature, the wild world. Even to this day, there are villages around england where they have an annual air which features a green man all dressed up in er green stuff. And there are pubs called the green man and er. It's posly the turn of the year. I think we're talking about ancient ideas that around christmas time, around the turning of the year, the world has to start generating again. Adand everything con start growing again. And it had better do otherwise we're in trouble. Y co the green knight. Who is the green knight? People have written books and books about who is
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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