Sir Gawain and the Green Knight: A Middle-English Arthurian Romance Retold in Modern Prose
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Chapters (72)
- No. I Sir Gawain and the Green Knight
- Preface
- CONTENTS
- I
- Of the making of Britain
- How Arthur held high feast at Camelot
- New Year’s Day
- Of the noble knights there present
- The coming of the Green Knight
- The fashion of the knight
- Of the knight’s steed
- The arming of the knight
- Of the knight’s challenge
- The silence of the knights
- How Sir Gawain dared the venture
- The making of the covenant
- The giving of the blow
- The marvel of the Green Knight
- II
- The waning of the year
- Sir Gawain bethinks him of his covenant
- The arming of Sir Gawain
- Wherefore Sir Gawain bare the pentangle
- How Sir Gawain went forth
- Of Sir Gawain’s journey
- How Sir Gawain came to a fair castle on Christmas Eve
- How Sir Gawain was welcomed
- Sir Gawain tells his name
- The lady of the castle
- Of the Christmas feast
- How the feast came to an end but Gawain abode at the castle
- Sir Gawain makes a covenant with his host
- III
- The first day’s hunting
- How the lady of the castle came to Sir Gawain
- How the lady kissed Sir Gawain
- How the covenant was kept
- Of the second day’s hunting
- Of the lady and Sir Gawain
- How the lady strove to beguile Sir Gawain with words of love
- How the boar was slain
- The keeping of the covenant
- Of the third day’s hunting
- How the lady came for the third time to Sir Gawain
- The lady would fain have a parting gift from Gawain
- She would give him her ring
- Or her girdle
- The virtue of the girdle
- How Sir Gawain took the girdle
- The death of the fox
- How Sir Gawain kept not all the covenant
- How Sir Gawain took leave of his host
- IV
- The robing of Sir Gawain
- How Sir Gawain went forth from the castle
- The squire’s warning
- Of the knight of the Green Chapel
- Sir Gawain is none dismayed
- The finding of the chapel
- The coming of the Green Knight
- How Sir Gawain failed to stand the blow
- Of the Green Knight’s reproaches
- How the Green Knight dealt the blow
- Of the three covenants
- The shame of Sir Gawain
- How Sir Gawain would keep the girdle
- How the marvel was wrought
- How Sir Gawain came again to Camelot
- Sir Gawain makes confession of his fault
- The knights wear the lace in honour of Gawain
- The end of the tale
- Notes
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