![]() ![]() His curious colour is a trait found nowhere else. In the Irish version the magician is a giant, and the abnormal size and stature of the Green Knight is, in all probability, the survival of a primitive feature. So far as the mediæval versions are concerned, the original hero is undoubtedly Gawain and our poem gives the fullest and most complete form of the story we possess. ![]() Two mediæval romances, the Mule sans Frein (French) and Diu Krône (German), again attribute it to Gawain while the continuator of Chrétien de Troye's Conte del Graal gives as hero a certain Carados, whom he represents as Arthur's nephew and the prose Perceval has Lancelot. The oldest version we possess is that found in the Irish tale of the Fled Bricrend (Bricriu's feast), where the hero of the tale is the Irish champion, Cuchulinn. This, the main incident of the tale, is apparently of very early date. If any in this hall holds himself so hardy. Gaston Paris thinks that the direct source was an Anglo-Norman poem, now lost.Ĥ. The author distinctly tells us more than once that the tale, as he tells it, was written in a book, M. ![]() Agravain, "à la dure main." This characterisation of Gawain's brother seems to indicate that there was a French source at the root of this story. ![]() "The Legend of Sir Gawain," Grimm Library, Vol. ![]()
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