#gawain — Public Fediverse posts

Happy #SherlockHolmesDay! One of our earliest videos was all about Holmes – and his connections to Sir Gawain and the Green Knight! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tGJ1fdAdn5w

#Etymology #Video #WordNerd #Linguistics #Language #Words #HistoricalLinguistics #LingComm #SherlockHolmes #Holmes #Gawain

Happy #SherlockHolmesDay! One of our earliest videos was all about Holmes – and his connections to Sir Gawain and the Green Knight! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tGJ1fdAdn5w

#Etymology #Video #WordNerd #Linguistics #Language #Words #HistoricalLinguistics #LingComm #SherlockHolmes #Holmes #Gawain

Happy #SherlockHolmesDay! One of our earliest videos was all about Holmes – and his connections to Sir Gawain and the Green Knight! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tGJ1fdAdn5w

#Etymology #Video #WordNerd #Linguistics #Language #Words #HistoricalLinguistics #LingComm #SherlockHolmes #Holmes #Gawain

Here’s a picture and link to my most recent publication, a chapter in Becoming the #PearlPoet , edited by Jane Beal. It’s about the question of who might have written the #Pearl and #Gawain poems, and what we might say about him/her with the limited information we have:
https://www.amazon.com/Becoming-Pearl-Poet-Perceptions-Connections-Receptions/dp/1793646759/
(Yes, it’s an expensive academic book: see if your library has a copy.)
#Introduction 3/4

I’m celebrating #NewYearsDay the traditional way — by finally fulfilling my year-long obligation to let the giant Green Man who lives in the chapel down the road take a swing at me with his axe.

#Gawain #GreenKnight #GawainDay

On New Year’s Eve, the last day of Sir Gawain’s stay at Bertilak’s castle, Lord Bertilak hunts an elusive fox named Reynard — a reference to a trickster character from a popular series of medieval beast tales.
I assume Reynard is also the inspiration for the talking fox in the Green Knight movie, which isn’t named and which Bertilak captures and releases, so it can warn Gawain to run from his fate.
#NewYearsEve #Gawain #GreenKnight #Reynard

My theory: the day was so holy and somber, the #GawainPoet took it for granted that no one would be feasting, hunting, or playing games then, so he simply left it out of the poem and fast-forwarded to the start of Gawain and Bertilak’s exchange game. But who knows [shrug emoji].

#Childermas #FeastOfTheHolyInnocents #Gawain

Today is December 27th, Saint John’s Day.
On this day in history, Lord Bertilak looked across the table at Sir Gawain and said, “Enough of this Christmas feasting. Let’s get down to business: hunting and playing an exchange game while you await your certain death!”

#SaintJohnsDay #Gawain #Bertilak #Christmas

I like to celebrate Christmas Eve the traditional way — feasting on a dozen different types of fish at my friend Bertilak’s place.
The wine flows freely, everyone looks beautiful (except one), and the holiday games are *crazy*.

#Bertilak #Gawain #GreenKnight #Christmas #ChristmasEve

#62 John Matthews - Gawain: Knight of the Goddess - Restoring an Archetype. The Aquarian Press, London, 1992, 1st paperback edition. #Gawain #ArthurianLegends #JohnMatthews #TheAquarianPress #BookOfTheDay

★★★★★
Twentieth Century Interpretations of Sir Gawain and the Green Knight, edited by Denton Fox

#bookstodon #sirgawain #gawain #greenknight #middleenglish #poetry #medieval #literaturestudies #literarystudies #literarycriticism #criticism #england #medievalengland

I am hugely proud of the post I just wrote about Yule traditions, mythology, and symbolism. If you love holly, berries, wassailing, and the old gods, I think you’ll enjoy it.

#WarOnChristmas #Yule #anarchy #Gawain #mumming #mayhem #Pagan #Cailleach #Krampus #OldFatherFrost #MotherHolda #Modranecht #MariLwyd

https://dowsingfordivinity.com/2022/12/03/anarchic-yule/

For #FolkloreThursday, sharing my #Yuletide entertainments, which include a dramatization of the #Mabinogion, a radio play for the #Solstice, #Gawain and the Green Knight, an original short story by me, and a video by my husband exploring #MorrisDancing and #MummingCustoms at Yuletide

https://dowsingfordivinity.com/2017/12/15/yuletide-entertainments/