1. What is the Green Knight's real name?

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ENGLISH 2310 FALL 2008 SIR GAWAIN QUIZ (6)
1. What is the Green Knight's "real"
name?   2. What is his wife's name, the Lady
of the story?     3. Who does the Green Knight
eventually say is responsible for the events of
the poem, and why? (2)
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Emboîtement in Sir Gawain and the Green Knight
Troy story Troy story
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Emboîtement in Sir Gawain and the Green Knight
Troy story Celebration at Camelot
Return to Camelot and
celebration Troy story
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Emboîtement in Sir Gawain and the Green Knight
Troy story Celebration at Camelot Challen
ge and beheading Return
blow Return to Camelot and celebration Troy
story
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Emboîtement in Sir Gawain and the Green Knight
Troy story Celebration at Camelot Challen
ge and beheading Gawain arms himself and
journeys off Gawain arms himself and
goes to Green Chapel Return blow Return to
Camelot and celebration Troy story
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Emboîtement in Sir Gawain and the Green Knight
Troy story Celebration at Camelot Challen
ge and beheading Gawain arms himself and
journeys off Temptation/hunting/temptation/hunt
ing/temptation/hunting Gawain arms himself
and goes to Green Chapel Return blow Return
to Camelot and celebration Troy story
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Emboîtement in Sir Gawain and the Green Knight
Troy story Celebration at Camelot Challen
ge and beheading Gawain arms himself and
journeys off Temptation/hunting/temptation/hunt
ing/temptation/hunting Gawain arms himself
and goes to Green Chapel Return blow Return
to Camelot and celebration Troy story
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Garter knight
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• Indeed, said the doughty knight, and doffed his
  high helm,
• And held it in his hands as he offered his
  thanks,
• I have lingered long enoughmay good luck be
  yours,
• And He reward you well that all worship bestows!
• And commend me to that comely one, your courteous
  wife,
• Both herself and that other, my honoured ladies,
• That have trapped their true knight in their
  trammels so quaint.
• But if a dullard should dote, deem it no wonder,
• And through the wiles of a woman be wooed into
  sorrow,
• For so was Adam by one, when the world began,
• And Solomon by many more, and Samson the mighty
• Delilah was his doom, and David thereafter
• Now these were vexed by their devicestwere a
  very joy
• Was beguiled by Bathsheba, and bore much
  distress
• Could one but learn to love, and believe them
  not.
• For these were proud princes, most prosperous of
  old,
• Past all lovers lucky, that languished under
  heaven,
• bemused.
• And one al all fell prey

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2 Samuel 11 (New International Version)  1 In
the spring, at the time when kings go off to war,
David sent Joab out with the king's men and the
whole Israelite army. They destroyed the
Ammonites and besieged Rabbah. But David remained
in Jerusalem.  2 One evening David got up from
his bed and walked around on the roof of the
palace. From the roof he saw a woman bathing. The
woman was very beautiful, 3 and David sent
someone to find out about her. The man said,
"Isn't this Bathsheba, the daughter of Eliam and
the wife of Uriah the Hittite?" 4 Then David sent
messengers to get her. She came to him, and he
slept with her. (She had purified herself from
her uncleanness.) Then a she went back home. 5
The woman conceived and sent word to David,
saying, "I am pregnant."
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Sir Robert Cotton (1571-1631)
Cotton Nero A.x (Sir Gawain, Pearl) Cotton
Vitellius A.xv (Beowulf)
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The opening lines of Beowulf (BL MS Cotton
Vitellius A.xv)
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The opening lines of Sir Gawain and the Green
Knight (BL MS Cotton Nero A.x., f.91a)
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Guenevere
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Guenevere
Virgin Mary
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Guenevere
Virgin Mary
Two queens
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They refer to their men Guenevere to Arthur
(73-84), Mary to Christ (644-50)
Guenevere
Virgin Mary
Two queens
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They refer to their men Guenevere to Arthur
(73-84), Mary to Christ (644-50)
Guenevere
Virgin Mary
Two queens
Lady Bercilak
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They refer to their men Guenevere to Arthur
(73-84), Mary to Christ (644-50)
Guenevere
Virgin Mary
Two queens
943-54 wener than Wenore
Lady Bercilak
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They refer to their men Guenevere to Arthur
(73-84), Mary to Christ (644-50)
Guenevere
Virgin Mary
Two queens
Lady replaces Guenevere at the second Christmas
feast
943-54 wener than Wenore
Lady Bercilak
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They refer to their men Guenevere to Arthur
(73-84), Mary to Christ (644-50)
Guenevere
Virgin Mary
Two queens
Lady replaces Guenevere at the second Christmas
feast
943-54 wener than Wenore
Lady Bercilak
Morgan le Fay
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They refer to their men Guenevere to Arthur
(73-84), Mary to Christ (644-50)
Guenevere
Virgin Mary
Two queens
Lady replaces Guenevere at the second Christmas
feast
943-54 wener than Wenore
Twinned descriptions in second fitt
Lady Bercilak
Morgan le Fay
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They refer to their men Guenevere to Arthur
(73-84), Mary to Christ (644-50)
Guenevere
Virgin Mary
Two queens
Lady replaces Guenevere at the second Christmas
feast
943-54 wener than Wenore
Twinned descriptions in second fitt
Lady Bercilak
Morgan le Fay
If its Morgans plan, the lady is in her service
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They refer to their men Guenevere to Arthur
(73-84), Mary to Christ (644-50)
Guenevere
Virgin Mary
Two queens
Lady replaces Guenevere at the second Christmas
feast
943-54 wener than Wenore
Twinned descriptions in second fitt
Lady Bercilak
Morgan le Fay
If its Morgans plan, the lady is in her service
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They refer to their men Guenevere to Arthur
(73-84), Mary to Christ (644-50)
Guenevere
Virgin Mary
Two queens
Lady replaces Guenevere at the second Christmas
feast
Gawains aunt and patroness
943-54 wener than Wenore
Twinned descriptions in second fitt
Lady Bercilak
Morgan le Fay
If its Morgans plan, the lady is in her service
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They refer to their men Guenevere to Arthur
(73-84), Mary to Christ (644-50)
Guenevere
Virgin Mary
Two queens
Powerful, supernatural figures
Lady replaces Guenevere at the second Christmas
feast
Gawains aunt and patroness
943-54 wener than Wenore
Twinned descriptions in second fitt
Lady Bercilak
Morgan le Fay
If its Morgans plan, the lady is in her service
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They refer to their men Guenevere to Arthur
(73-84), Mary to Christ (644-50)
Guenevere
Virgin Mary
Two queens
Powerful, supernatural figures
Lady replaces Guenevere at the second Christmas
feast
Gawains aunt and patroness
943-54 wener than Wenore
Twinned descriptions in second fitt
Lady Bercilak
Morgan le Fay
If its Morgans plan, the lady is in her service
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They refer to their men Guenevere to Arthur
(73-84), Mary to Christ (644-50)
Guenevere
Virgin Mary
Two queens
Powerful, supernatural figures
Lady replaces Guenevere at the second Christmas
feast
They surround Gawain at the mid-point (1263)
Gawains aunt and patroness
943-54 wener than Wenore
Twinned descriptions in second fitt
Lady Bercilak
Morgan le Fay
If its Morgans plan, the lady is in her service
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They refer to their men Guenevere to Arthur
(73-84), Mary to Christ (644-50)
Guenevere
Virgin Mary
Two queens
Powerful, supernatural figures
Lady replaces Guenevere at the second Christmas
feast
1768-72 Mary and Lady compete for Gawain
They surround Gawain at the mid-point (1263)
Gawains aunt and patroness
943-54 wener than Wenore
Twinned descriptions in second fitt
Lady Bercilak
Morgan le Fay
If its Morgans plan, the lady is in her service
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They refer to their men Guenevere to Arthur
(73-84), Mary to Christ (644-50)
Guenevere
Virgin Mary
Two queens
Powerful, supernatural figures
Lady replaces Guenevere at the second Christmas
feast
1768-72 Mary and Lady compete for Gawain
They surround Gawain at the mid-point (1263)
Gawains aunt and patroness
943-54 wener than Wenore
Silent presences at court
Twinned descriptions in second fitt
Lady Bercilak
Morgan le Fay
If its Morgans plan, the lady is in her service
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They refer to their men Guenevere to Arthur
(73-84), Mary to Christ (644-50)
Guenevere
Virgin Mary
Two queens
Placed in the margins, at beginning and end
Powerful, supernatural figures
Lady replaces Guenevere at the second Christmas
feast
1768-72 Mary and Lady compete for Gawain
They surround Gawain at the mid-point (1263)
Gawains aunt and patroness
943-54 wener than Wenore
Silent presences at court
Twinned descriptions in second fitt
Lady Bercilak
Morgan le Fay
If its Morgans plan, the lady is in her service
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They refer to their men Guenevere to Arthur
(73-84), Mary to Christ (644-50)
Guenevere
Virgin Mary
Two queens
Placed in the margins, at beginning and end
Powerful, supernatural figures
Lady replaces Guenevere at the second Christmas
feast
1768-72 Mary and Lady compete for Gawain
They surround Gawain at the mid-point (1263)
Gawains aunt and patroness
943-54 wener than Wenore
Silent presences at court
Twinned descriptions in second fitt
Lady Bercilak
Morgan le Fay
If its Morgans plan, the lady is in her service
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They refer to their men Guenevere to Arthur
(73-84), Mary to Christ (644-50)
Guenevere
Virgin Mary
Two queens
Placed in the margins, at beginning and end
Powerful, supernatural figures
Lady replaces Guenevere at the second Christmas
feast
1768-72 Mary and Lady compete for Gawain
They surround Gawain at the mid-point (1263)
Gawains aunt and patroness
943-54 wener than Wenore
Silent presences at court
Twinned descriptions in second fitt
Lady Bercilak
Morgan le Fay
If its Morgans plan, the lady is in her service
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They refer to their men Guenevere to Arthur
(73-84), Mary to Christ (644-50)
Guenevere
Virgin Mary
Two queens
Placed in the margins, at beginning and end
Powerful, supernatural figures
Lady replaces Guenevere at the second Christmas
feast
1768-72 Mary and Lady compete for Gawain
They surround Gawain at the mid-point (1263)
Gawains aunt and patroness
943-54 wener than Wenore
Silent presences at court
Twinned descriptions in second fitt
Lady Bercilak
Morgan le Fay
If its Morgans plan, the lady is in her service
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Morgan, named "the goddess," directs an emissary
to the Arthurian court to trigger a drama whose
intended destination is Guenevere, the secular
queen who is the desired audience or reader of
its effects. A player, Gawain, is drawn into
Morgan's game, under the apparent patronage of
the "heaven-queen," the Blessed Virgin. In the
course of his journey, Gawain's supplication to
this Christian goddess for a safe residence in
which to perform Christian religious rites, a
plaint invoking the sacred name of his mistress,
Mary (736-39, 754), seems to occasion the
appearance of the castle where an aggressively
secular courtly mistress (the nameless lady)
resides--the scene for the performance of amatory
rites. There a feminine game of seduction is
enacted, a seduction of language and identity
that forms the principle aventure of this
romance, but its precise outcome and consequences
are veiled from the knightly participant's
understanding, being hidden within the screen
game of a masculine economy of exchanges. The
Lady marks Gawain with her personal sign--a
"love-lace," or sexualized signifier, which is
later disseminated throughout the Arthurian
court--as well as with a small neck-wound, a
token cut that leaves a scar. The end limit of
her play is signaled by the Virgin's rescue of
"her knight" from "great peril." Finally, when
the feminine sub-script is read to him, Gawain in
self-defensive fury attributes all responsibility
and power to women, in what is commonly cited as
his "antifeminist diatribe," a tirade witnessing
the belief that women dominate and shape the
destines of men. Morgan's signature in the drama
is deciphered by the Green Knight, who unravels
it backward to the beginning of the poem's
action. from Geraldine Heng, "Feminine Knots
and the Other Sir Gawain and the Green Knight,"
PMLA 106 (1991) 500-14.
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