Sir Gawain and the Green Knight 在线电子书 图书标签: knight chivalry
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“But that you loved your own life; the less, then, to blame”
评分“But that you loved your own life; the less, then, to blame”
评分“But that you loved your own life; the less, then, to blame”
评分“But that you loved your own life; the less, then, to blame”
评分跟Chaucer的The Knight's Tale宣扬的骑士精神有些许相同之处,比方说honesty,不过出于对长故事尤其是古英文长诗的憎恶,还是喜欢读Chaucer的那篇。
Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: all that pertaineth thereto, and tell me thy name, and I shall use all my wit to win my way thither, and that I swear thee for sooth, and by my sure troth." " That is enough in the New Year, it needs no more," quoth the Green Knight to the gallant Gawain, "if I tell thee truly when I have taken the blow, and thou hast smitten me; then will I teach thee of my house and home, and mine own name, then mayest thou ask thy road and keep covenant. And if I waste no words then farest thou the better, for thou canst dwell in thy land, and seek no further. But take now thy toll, and let see how thy strikest." "Gladly will I," quoth Gawain, handling his axe. Then the Green Knight swiftly made The giv- him ready, he bowed down his head, and i"8t of the laid his long locks on the crown that his ow bare neck might be seen. Gawain gripped his axe and raised it on high, the left foot he set forward on the floor, and let the blow fall lightly on the bare neck. The sharp edge of the blade sundered the bones, smote through the neck, and clave it in two, so that the edge of the steel bit 16 JJttf 0ftWfttn anJ on the ground, and the fair head fell to the earth that many struck it with their feet as it rolled forth. The blood spurted forth, and glistened on the green raiment, but the knight neither faltered nor fell; he The mar- started forward with out-stretched hand, Ve'Green anc' caugnt the head, and lifted it up; then Knight he turned to his steed, and took hold of the-bride, set his foot in the stirrup, and mounted. His head he held by the hair, in his hand. Then he seated himself in his saddle as if naught ailed him, and he were not headless. He turned his steed about, the grim corpse bleeding freely the while, and they who looked upon him doubted them much for the covenant. For...
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