Sir Gawain and the Green Knight

Texts:

• To get to know the whole story read the prose translation which can be found in the Krzysztof Fordoński anthology (available in library): pages from 114 to 143. This is the Jessie Weston translation. You may like to compare it with the Representative Poetry On-line version
  

• For our meeting bring the translation from the Mazur & Bela anthology (available in library): pp. 32-41

• Also, read Sir Thomas Malory's Morte Darthur (excerpts from the Mazur & Bela anthology, pp. 60-68)

• Excerpts from the Roman de la Rose

Contexts:

• Gawain study questions

• A Wikipedia article on Sir Gawain and the Green Knight

• About Sir Gawain

• A Gawain project

• A Gawain study guide at Bibliomania
  

• A commercial reading of the Gawain story

• Luminarium

• About Roman de la Rose
  

• Medieval literature resources
• Read about the medieval context, such as food, architecture, music and science in those times
• The Age of Feudalism -- a study guide by Cummings
  

Terms:

romance, quest,courtly love (1), courtly love (2), chivalry, five cardinal virtues (purity, courtesy, piety, generosity, love of his fellows / fellowship), pentacle / pentangle, allegory, Alliterative Revival, stock, bob and wheel

Beowulf

Texts:

• F.B. Gummere's translation with additional info

• Another F.B. Gummere's translation

• David Breeden's adaptation
  

• Listen to Seamus Heaney's readings from his own translation of Beowulf (to be found in the Norton Anthology – available in Biblioteka)

• Listen to some Old English lines taken from Beowulf

Contexts:

• Norton background info on Beowulf
• Beowulf study guide by Cummings
• Beowulf at NovelGuide
  
• Norton study questions
• UCI study questions
• Some problems with translating Old English texts
• Seamus Heaney on his translation
• A host of links to further Beowulf pages