Gawain


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(Arthurian legend) a nephew of Arthur and one of the knights of the Round Table

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The disturbing marvel perceived at Camelot when the "appropriate" course of action fails to eliminate the offending presence is nervously domesticated by Arthur; Gawain's agonized reflections on his compromised "traw[thorn]e" generate his non-marvellous anti-feminist diatribe; and the newly introspective and dangerously individualized Gawain standing apart from the court is reintegrated into Camelot's courtly society by a collective reinterpretation of the girdle.
Anderson's book is very suitable for students, though his chapter on Gawain should really be read alongside some other accounts of medieval popular piety, such as Eamon Duffy, The Stripping of the Altars: Traditional Religion in England c.
'Pinapahayag din natin ngayong summer kung magkakaroon man ng mga concert ay mahigpit nating pinapa-alalahanan ang lahat na umiwas po tayo sa mga ganitong gawain sa paggamit ng party drugs,' PNP spokesman Col.
Building on the interaction of the virtues, Sir Gawain and the Green Knight dramatizes the virtue tradition's ambiguity.
Ito yung gawain ko kahapon, ito yung gawain ko itong lingong, ito yung gagawin ko next week.
GAWAIN JOHNSTONE is considered the strongest Filipino of all time.
* Defending champion Gawain Jones of the UK trails half a point adrift
Poor Gawain the goose, Chief Guard of the Royal Treasury, certainly seems to be the only possible culprit for the theft of King Basil's treasure but as readers, we know Gawain is not capable of the crime.
Azerbaijani grandmaster Shahriyar Mammadyarov played for a draw with Jones Gawain from England in the 12th round of "Tata Steel Chess" tournament.
FOR the past two years Clive Hicks-Jenkins has been making a series of fourteen screen prints based on the mystical medieval poem, Sir Gawain and the Green Knight, using Simon Armitage's 2007 translation published by Faber & Faber.
Among works of medieval English literature most often subjected to criticism and anthologized, one finds the fourteenth-century chivalric romance Sir Gawain and the Green Knight, and its manuscript companion, the dream vision known as Pearl.
MFrom helping his friend Gawain Rogers to meet his wife to constantly providing support to the couple - and also organising a surprise stag do for the groom in Prague, Dan Loughlin went the extra mile when it came to carrying out his duty.