Notes on Sir Gawain and the Green Knight

Lawrence Warner

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Notes on Sir Gawain and the Green Knight

Lawrence Warner

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Regarding the assumption that, since "there is only one manuscript, after all"of Sir Gawain and the Green Knight, all the textual issues are sorted: no. This article proposes new readings of, or contributes to debates concerning: the placement of the bobs; "Felix Brutus"(line 13); "to lay / Lede lif"(lines 97-98); "yow"(line 341, a recovered MS reading); "in tent"(line 624); "britried"(line 680, a recovered MS reading); "ver"(line 866); "Ful hendely"(line 895); "wayued"(line 1032); "pankked"(line 1866, a recovered MS reading); "I zef yow me⋯"(line 1964); the guide's oath (line 2122); "til"(line 2132, a recovered MS reading); and "of pe poynt of myn egge"(line 2392). Supposed "conservative"approaches to such items are in fact "radical"in that they effect major alterations to large bodies of knowledge rather than to the text of this single manuscript.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	125-152
Number of pages	28
Journal	CHAUCER REVIEW: A JOURNAL OF MEDIEVAL STUDIES AND LITERARY CRITICISM
Volume	56
Issue number	2
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.5325/chaucerrev.56.2.0125
Publication status	Published - 1 Apr 2021

Keywords

alliterative meter
editing
lexicography
manuscript studies
Sir Gawain and the Green Knight
textual studies

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