Gawain (/ˈɡɑːweɪn, ˈɡæ-, -wɪn, ɡəˈweɪn/ GA(H)-wayn, -win, gə-WAYN), also known in many other forms and spellings, is a character in Arthurian legend,...
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Sir Gawain and the Green Knight is a late 14th-century chivalric romance in Middle English alliterative verse. The author is unknown; the title was given...
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The "Gawain Poet" (/ˈɡɑːweɪn, ˈɡæ-, -wɪn, ɡəˈweɪn/ GA(H)-wayn, -win, gə-WAYN; fl. late 14th century), or less commonly the "Pearl Poet", is the name given...
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Gawain is, in Arthurian legend, King Arthur's nephew and one of the Knights of the Round Table. Gawain may also refer to: People: Gawain Westray Bell (1909–1995)...
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Shakti Gawain (30 September 1948 – 11 November 2018) was an American New Age and personal development writer. Her books have sold over 10 million copies...
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adaptation from the 14th-century poem Sir Gawain and the Green Knight. The film stars Dev Patel as Gawain, who sets out on a journey to test his courage...
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Gawain and the Green Knight is a 1973 British film directed by Stephen Weeks, and starring Murray Head as Gawain and Nigel Green in his final theatrical...
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character of the Matter of Britain, originating in the 14th-century poem Sir Gawain and the Green Knight and the related medieval work The Greene Knight. His...
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The Wedding of Sir Gawain and Dame Ragnelle (The Weddynge of Syr Gawen and Dame Ragnell) is a 15th-century English poem, one of several versions of the...
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Several of the most notable Knights of the Round Table, among them Bedivere, Gawain and Kay, are based on older characters from a host of great warriors associated...
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Sword of the Valiant (redirect from Sword of the Valiant: The Legend of Sir Gawain and the Green Knight)
Sword of the Valiant: The Legend of Sir Gawain and the Green Knight (often shortened to Sword of the Valiant) is a 1984 dramatic fantasy film directed...
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Northern Gawain Group is the name given by modern scholars to a group of Arthurian romances from around the fifteenth century, set around the northwestern...
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Gawain Christopher Bernard Jones (born 11 December 1987) is an English chess grandmaster and three-time British Chess Champion. He was awarded the grandmaster...
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appearing in different forms of her archetype. She is notably the mother of Gawain and often also of Mordred, both key players in the story of her brother...
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2054 Gawain, provisional designation 4097 P-L, is a dark and elongated asteroid from the outer regions of the asteroid belt, approximately 19 kilometers...
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Gawain Vincent (born 9 March 1990, Les Lilas) is a British handball player. At the 2012 Summer Olympics he competed with the Great Britain men's national...
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Gawain" is an English Arthurian ballad, collected as Child Ballad 31. Found in the Percy Folio, it is a fragmented account of the story of Sir Gawain...
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Gawain is an opera with music by Harrison Birtwistle to a libretto by David Harsent. The story is based on the Middle English romance Sir Gawain and the...
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Gawain Peter Briars (born 4 April 1958) is a sportsman and lawyer in the United Kingdom. In the world of squash, he has won several major international...
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The Knightly Tale of Gologras and Gawain (also commonly spelt Golagros and Gawane) is a Middle Scots Arthurian romance written in alliterative verse of...
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Ywain and Gawain is an early-14th century Middle English Arthurian verse romance based quite closely upon the late-12th-century Old French romance The...
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Sir Gawain and the Carle of Carlisle is a Middle English tail-rhyme romance of 660 lines, composed in about 1400. A similar story is told in a 17th-century...
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the covers of their respective books. Note: Gawain II was conceived by Norton and Orlene, but has Gawain's genetic material instead of Norton's (a favor...
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Gawain Robert Little (born 28 May 1980) is a British trade union leader. Little grew up in Toxteth, Liverpool, in the early 1980s, leaving Liverpool in...
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Pearl Manuscript (British Library MS Cotton Nero A X/2), also known as the Gawain manuscript, is an illuminated manuscript produced somewhere in northern...
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and the romance Sir Gawain and the Green Knight. All are thought to be by the same author, dubbed the "Pearl poet" or "Gawain poet", on the evidence...
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beheading game appears in several Arthurian romances, most notably Sir Gawain and the Green Knight. The version of the game found in the latter work has...
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described him as Gawain's cousin instead of brother. Malory's Le Morte d'Arthur depicts Gaheris as little more than a supporting character to Gawain, with an...
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Perceval, the poem and its continuations also tell of the adventures of Gawain and some other knights of King Arthur. The poem relates the adventures and...
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known as Anna or Morgause, thus nephew of King Arthur, and brother to Sir Gawain, Gaheris, and Gareth, as well as half-brother to Mordred. Agravain secretly...
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