The Lore of Gawain - Jessie Laidlay Weston - Bog

Gawain was the champion of Arthur, his nephew, and sometime seeker of the Holy Grail. The text is mainly republications of the translations of the classic tales from French and German sources by Ms. Jessie Laidlay Weston (1850-1928), who is famous for her scholarship of Arthurian legends and whose book From Ritual to Romance inspired T. S. Eliot for his poem Wasteland. The Lore of Gawain is a compilation of all the tales and literature of the Arthurian knight Gawain including: Sir Gawain and the Green KnightLe Morte d'Arthur (only portions pertaining to Gawain)The Wedding of Sir Gawain & Dame RagnelleSir Gawain and the Lady of LysCastle OrguellousMorienSir Gawain and the Grail CastleParzival-W. von Eschenbach (only portions pertaining to Gawain)Annotations explain pagan and Christian references in the text and updates spelling and certain archaic word usages.