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Le Morte D'Arthur, by Thomas Mallory

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cuchlann:
deborah - re: Gawain and the Green Knight.  That's a good suggestion.  Given that I spent a third of my medieval lit. class discussing that poem, I should have remembered.  

I guess the only caveat is that it's not really a story about Arthur's legend; it's a romance (possibly a critique of the chivalric romance and chivalry in general, depending on your viewpoint) that starts in Arthur's court, as it was the greatest court in the Romantic tradition.  But it's still a great piece.  

Middle English isn't too tough if you have a glossary of words that haven't come through to PDE.  The sentence structure and base words are similar to PDE.  Of course, Gawain is written in a peculiar dialect, native to the region where the bulk of the poem takes place.  

Oh, and the Fairie Queen isn't finished, as Spenser died in the middle of composing it.

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