Romance

• Kathryn Gravdal - sexual violence is built into the very premise of Arthurian Romance. It is a genre that by its definition must create the threat of rape
• green chapel as Fairy mound 


  J. R. Hulbert
• Gawain - Magic in Hall

  overal enker grene; a much berd as a bush;

  such a hwe lach I as growe grene as the gres and greener hit semed / then grene aumayl on golde glowande brighter

  stel bot on the grounde; hede hit to the erthe; blod... blykked on the grene

  ful ryche
• Orfeo - Magic in the Court

  ympre-tre; ther come to me fair knightes; 'wold I, nold ich'; nothing help the no schal' ‘quen was oway ytuight,/ with fairi forth ynome’ scheldtrom
• Gawain - court in nature

  wodwos that woned in the knarres; henged hye over his hede in hard ysse-ikkles; bot sode style as the ston other a stubbe auther/ that ratheled is in roche grounde with rotes a hundreth
• Orfeo - court in nature

  'now on hard hethe he lith/ with leves and gresse he him writh' 'the king mot make his bed in mese'
• The tale has one, particularly unusual and conspicuously powerful quality which is its evocation of the uncanny and unknowable 

  “Really recovering himself”


  Laura on Orfeo
• Arestyus - threat of rape in nature Henryson's version, attempt to escape through 'medow grene'
• Orfeo - Heurodis' vision, - rivers forestes frith with flours
• Orfeo new

  Cite of noble defens

  Crached hir visage

  Riche robe hye al torett

  Maidens durst hir nought awake
• embrawded

  best gemmes / that myght be preved of prys wyth penyes to bye in daye.'


  Gawain - Guinevere