Tag: medieval

Le Morte D’Arthur, Sir Thomas Malory (1485)

Le Morte D’Arthur, Sir Thomas Malory (1485)

Source: www.gutenberg.org/files/1251/1251-h/1251-h.htm#link2HCH0007 BOOK VIII CHAPTER I. How Sir Tristram de Liones was born, and how his mother died at his birth, wherefore she named him Tristram. IT was a …

 

The Canterbury Tales, Geoffrey Chaucer (XIVc)

The Canterbury Tales, Geoffrey Chaucer (XIVc)

Source: machias.edu/faculty/necastro/chaucer/translation/ct/01gppt.txt   Here begins the Book of the Tales of Canterbury. The Prologue When the sweet showers of April have pierced to the root the dryness of March and …

 

Sir Gawain and the Green Knight, Anonymous (XIVc)

Sir Gawain and the Green Knight, Anonymous (XIVc)

Source: www.poetryintranslation.com/PITBR/English/GawainAndTheGreenKnight.htm#_Toc178583491   90   ‘Gawain,’ quoth the green man, ‘God may you guard! Indeed you are welcome, knight, to my place, and you have timed your travel as true man should. And …