Sir Gawain and the Green Knight". Representative Poetry Online. University of Toronto Libraries. 1 August 2002. Creel can't believe her aunt wants to sacrifice her to the local dragon. It's a ploy to lure a heroic knight so that he will fight the dragon, marry Creel out of chivalrous obligation, and lift the entire family out of poverty. Creel isn't worried. After all, nobody has seen a dragon in centuries. Hilari Bell’s Knight and Rogue series is about Michael, a nobleman turned knight-errant, and his reluctant squire Fisk. An aspiring Golden Girl, Nicole Hill is a former journalist and forever writer whose home is equal parts pet rescue and personal library. Nicole lives in Austin, Texas, with her husband and growing canine and feline brood. Please send any and all book recs and review copies to [email protected].

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a b c Friedman, Albert B. (1 April 1960). "Morgan le Fay in Sir Gawain and the Green Knight". Speculum. 35 (2): 260–274. doi: 10.2307/2851343. ISSN 0038-7134. JSTOR 2851343. S2CID 162199973. As a writer, I strive to create stories that I wish I had found on shelves when I was younger. In that same way, every title on this list not only brings new ways to find adventures through reading, but will hopefully leave young readers with new skills to face the world around them. We often think just cause a story has fantastical elements that it makes them detached from reality, but give any of these a read and you'll find, the farther it is from real life, the brighter the common themes we all share shine through. Gawain's refusal of the Lady's ring has major implications for the remainder of the story. While the modern student may tend to pay more attention to the girdle as the eminent object offered by her, readers in the time of Gawain would have noticed the significance of the offer of the ring as they believed that rings, and especially the embedded gems, had talismanic properties similarly done by the Gawain-poet in Pearl. [59] This is especially true of the Lady's ring, as scholars believe it to be a ruby or carbuncle, indicated when the Gawain-Poet describes it as a bryȝt sunne (fiery sun). [60] [61] [62] This red colour can be seen as symbolising royalty, divinity, and the Passion of the Christ, something that Gawain as a knight of the Round Table would strive for, [63] but this colour could also represent the negative qualities of temptation and covetousness. [64] Given the importance of magic rings in Arthurian romance, this remarkable ring would also have been believed to protect the wearer from harm just as the Lady claims the girdle will. [65] Numbers [ edit ]

I’ve been writing fantasy for two decades now and still, I can’t resist a foul-mouthed rogue with a grubby soul. They’re usually the most entertaining characters to write and in the long days of plugging away at a book, they’re often the ones that remind you what’s so fun about the job. When I started Stranger of Tempest it was (pretty much solely) with that in mind – I wanted a disparate band of crazed, badass idiots to go on an adventure with and see where it took me. Of course, as I got to know them I found there was more to their tales than that, but it was fun right to the end! The word gomen (game) is found 18 times in Gawain. Its similarity to the word gome (man), which appears 21 times, has led some scholars to see men and games as centrally linked. Games at this time were seen as tests of worthiness, as when the Green Knight challenges the court's right to its good name in a "Christmas game". [31] The "game" of exchanging gifts was common in Germanic cultures. If a man received a gift, he was obliged to provide the giver with a better gift or risk losing his honour, almost like an exchange of blows in a fight (or in a "beheading game"). [32] The poem revolves around two games: an exchange of beheading and an exchange of winnings. These appear at first to be unconnected. However, a victory in the first game will lead to a victory in the second. Elements of both games appear in other stories; however, the linkage of outcomes is unique to Gawain. [12] [10] Times and seasons [ edit ]

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Sir Gawain and the Green Knight". Sir Gawain and the Green Knight, Pearl, and Sir Orfeo. Translated by Tolkien, J. R. R. London: Allen & Unwin. 1975. p.92. ISBN 9780048210357.a b Goodlad, Lauren M. (1 October 1987). "The Gamnes of Sir Gawain and the Green Knight". Comitatus: A Journal of Medieval and Renaissance Studies. 18 (1). ISSN 0069-6412. Burrow, J. A. (1971). Ricardian poetry: Chaucer, Gower, Langland, and the Gawain poet. New Haven: Yale University Press. pp.4–5. ISBN 0-7100-7031-4.

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Howard, Donald R. (1 July 1964). "Structure and Symmetry in Sir Gawain". Speculum. 39 (3): 425–433. doi: 10.2307/2852497. ISSN 0038-7134. JSTOR 2852497. S2CID 162837889. She is determined to remain free from the clutches of Ivar. Moreover she wants revenge, wants to protect her friends and believes she has found her soulmate. Childhood me, adult me, mommy me, writer me, all version of me wanted adventure—and swords. Her books were treasured enough in my home that my (now-adult) daughter and I both had to buy replacement copies over the years.a b Goldhurst, William (November 1958). "The Green and the Gold: The Major Theme of Gawain and the Green Knight". College English. 20 (2): 61–65. doi: 10.2307/372161. JSTOR 372161. Oh, Dragons. They have invaded my life. They’re in every room in my house – it gets crowded in the bathroom but there are a couple in there. They feature in my meditations and once I started reading fantasy, they feature in many of my books. I’m always happy to look at a book with dragons in it. If I could turn into a dragon – I would. Riddles and magic plague their path, including a memory stealing witch, an unbeatable knight, and a magic book that would as soon drown them as… Spearing, A. C. (1970). The Gwain-poet; a critical study. Cambridge [England] University Press. OCLC 125992. Pugh, Tison (2002). "Gawain and the Godgames". Christianity and Literature. 51 (4): 526–551. doi: 10.1177/014833310205100402.