Welcome to the History of English Podcast, a podcast about the history of the English

language.

This is Episode 131, Sir Gawain and the Green Knight.

In this episode, we're going to conclude our look at the English literary revival of

the late 1300s with one of the most popular poems of that period, Sir Gawain and the

Green Knight.

This poem was composed around the same time as the Canterbury Tales, but this particular

poem is very different from Chaucer's works.

It was composed in a different part of England, so the dialect is different.

It also uses a literary instead of the rhyming verse that Chaucer used, so it has a much

more traditional old English feel about it.

But despite the difference in language and style, it remains one of the most enduring

poems from the middle English period.

And so this time, we'll examine the story of Gawain and the Green Knight, and we'll

also explore the language used to tell the story.

But before we begin, let me remind you that the website for the podcast is historyofenglishpodcast.com.

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Slash history of English.

Now let's turn our attention to Sir Gawain and the Green Knight.

Over the past few episodes, we've explored a very important period in the history of

the English language.

I realized that it may seem like the overall progress of the story has stopped and that

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