About the Book
Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Pages: 101. Chapters: The Canterbury Tales, Sir Gawain and the Green Knight, Piers Plowman, Sir Gawain and the Carle of Carlisle, Sir Eglamour of Artois, Piers Plowman tradition, Sir Perceval of Galles, Octavian, The Knightly Tale of Gologras and Gawain, Libeaus Desconus, Confessio Amantis, Ipomadon, Ormulum, Sir Isumbras, Prologue and Tale of Beryn, Pearl, Pierce the Ploughman's Crede, Sir Gowther, The Floure and the Leafe, Sir Degrevant, Emare, Kildare Poems, I syng of a mayden, The Squire of Low Degree, Sir Launfal, Sir Orfeo, The Wedding of Sir Gawain and Dame Ragnelle, Wynnere and Wastoure, Cleanness, Sumer Is Icumen In, The Owl and the Nightingale, Sir Degare, Adam lay ybounden, Medieval debate poetry, The Awntyrs off Arthure, The Book of the Duchess, Troilus and Criseyde, Corpus Christi Carol, Parlement of Foules, The Three Dead Kings, The Legend of Good Women, Cursor Mundi, Lullay, mine liking, Layamon's Brut, Le Bone Florence of Rome, Amis and Amiloun, Alliterative Morte Arthure, St. Erkenwald, Amoryus and Cleopes, Tournament of Tottenham, Generides, Sir Tryamour, Sir Cleges, Anelida and Arcite, Mum and the Sothsegger, Ywain and Gawain, Flen flyys, Chanson d'aventure, Poem on the Evil Times of Edward II, When The Nightingale Sings, The Seege of Troye, Speculum Vitae, Northern Homily Cycle. Excerpt: Sir Gawain and the Green Knight is a late 14th-century Middle English alliterative romance outlining an adventure of Sir Gawain, a knight of King Arthur's Round Table. In the poem, Sir Gawain accepts a challenge from a mysterious warrior who is completely green, from his clothes and hair to his beard and skin, save for his red eyes. The "Green Knight" offers to allow anyone to strike him with his axe if the challenger will take a return blow in a year and a day. Gawain accepts, and beheads him in one blow, only to have the Green Knig...
