Sometimes the Christmas
festivities
were prolonged to New
Year's Day (Sir F.
Year's Day (Sir F.
Gawaine and the Green Knight
er wyth a gorger wat3 gered ouer ?
e swyre.
The gorger or wimple is stated first to have appeared in Edward the
First's reign, and an example is found on the monument of Aveline,
Countess of Lancaster, who died in 1269. From the poem, however, it
would seem that the gorger was confined to elderly ladies (Sir F.
Madden).
968 More lykker-wys on to lyk,
Wat3 ? at scho had on lode.
A more pleasant one to like,
Was that (one) she had under her control.
988 tayt iively, and hence pleasant, agreeable.
1015 in vayres, in purity.
1020 dut munt (? ) }int (? ), referring to sword-sports.
1022 sayn[t] Ione3 day. This is the 27th of December, and the last of the
feast.
Sometimes the Christmas festivities were prolonged to New
Year's Day (Sir F. Madden).
1047 derne dede aecret deed. I would prefer to read derue dede great deed. Cf. lines 558, 564.
1053 I wot in worlde, etc. w not (I know not) in worlde, etc.
1054 I nolde, bot if I hit negh my3t on nw3eres morne,
For alle ? e londe in-wyth Logres, etc.
I would not [delay to set out], unless I might approach it on New
Year's morn, for all the lands within England, etc.
1074 in spenne in space an the interval eeanwhile. See line 1503.
1160 slentyng of arwes. Sir F. Madden reads sleutyng.
The gorger or wimple is stated first to have appeared in Edward the
First's reign, and an example is found on the monument of Aveline,
Countess of Lancaster, who died in 1269. From the poem, however, it
would seem that the gorger was confined to elderly ladies (Sir F.
Madden).
968 More lykker-wys on to lyk,
Wat3 ? at scho had on lode.
A more pleasant one to like,
Was that (one) she had under her control.
988 tayt iively, and hence pleasant, agreeable.
1015 in vayres, in purity.
1020 dut munt (? ) }int (? ), referring to sword-sports.
1022 sayn[t] Ione3 day. This is the 27th of December, and the last of the
feast.
Sometimes the Christmas festivities were prolonged to New
Year's Day (Sir F. Madden).
1047 derne dede aecret deed. I would prefer to read derue dede great deed. Cf. lines 558, 564.
1053 I wot in worlde, etc. w not (I know not) in worlde, etc.
1054 I nolde, bot if I hit negh my3t on nw3eres morne,
For alle ? e londe in-wyth Logres, etc.
I would not [delay to set out], unless I might approach it on New
Year's morn, for all the lands within England, etc.
1074 in spenne in space an the interval eeanwhile. See line 1503.
1160 slentyng of arwes. Sir F. Madden reads sleutyng.
