Word: wife
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...private family, three rooms, suitable for a professor and wife. Three minutes walk from college yard...
...companions with the Carl of Carlisle, a huge monster, to whose castle they came one night. The Carl made some rather extravagant demands of his guests and only Gawain was polite enough to comply with them. He was rewarded with a seat at table beside Carl's beautiful wife and daughter. The crowning demand w. s that Gawain should cut of his host's head. With great reluctance he did as requested, and there sprang up a noble prince, who warmly thanked him, and told how he had been condemned to slay all guests who refused his demands. Gawain...
...woman said she would save King Arthur, if Gawain would wed her. The tale says she was the ugliest woman alive, yet Gawain readily offered to marry her. So she told Arthur that women liked sovereignty most. Thus Arthur escaped, but poor Gawain found an arrogant mistress in his wife. At last, however, she bade him choose between having her beautiful by day and ugly by night, or the reverse. When he gave her own way she was released from her cruel enchantment and became a beautiful creature, who ever remained his loving and obedient wife...
...given him. The next day he sallies forth and meets the Green Knight at the Green Chapel and receives his blow. He is not affected by it and the Green Knight, who is of course the lord of the neighboring Castle, tells him that he knows of his wife's advances and of the girdle. He commends his resistance and lets him go. Gawain returns to the Round Table when he is received with honors...
...English language. The plot is clear and the action is well managed. There is no padding. The great theme of all four of the author's poems is cleanness, appearing in "Gawain and the Green Knight," in Gawain's resistance to the temptations of the knight's wife...