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Gawain
[ gah-win, gaw- ]
noun
- Arthurian Legend. one of the knights of the Round Table: a nephew of King Arthur.
Word History and Origins
Origin of Gawain1
Example Sentences
Another is that we’ve slipped into Gawain’s headspace, imagining himself as a corpse, and that’s what motivates him to keep going.
Then the camera slowly turns in a full circle, revealing the rotted corpse of Gawain.
The “green knight” of the traditional title refers to the knight with whom Gawain tangles, whose skin is described as green.
The oldest is the 14th century’s “Sir Gawain and the Green Knight,” which will be getting a big-screen adaptation this summer, making it much less under-recognized.
Writer and director David Lowery adapts the classic medieval legend of Sir Gawain, with Dev Patel starring as King Arthur’s fearsome nephew.
Chretien de Troyes has Yvain and Gawain fighting anonymously for hours without stopping until night forces them to draw back.
As Gawain rides along the bank of a creek, he hears this sickening sound ringing from above.
Gawain is less a personality than a piece of granite, a man “whose glory waxed / as times darkened.”
Numerous mistakes have thus arisen, such as rolke for rokke (a rock) in Gawain Douglas, and many more of the same kind.
This metre was also employed by Gawain Douglas in his translation of Vergil.
Gawain does not pay court to Elaine, nor does Arthur rebuke him, as in the poem.
The poet will now for a while recount the adventures of Gawain; whom many have held to be as valiant a knight as Parzival.
No such adventures are recorded in any Romance that has come down to us; but they are quite in keeping with Gawain's character.
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